Everything old is new again.
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Clearly well just have to call that goal celebration the “Number 11.” Nice work, Honey Badger!!
Arguably, the two most influential women’s soccer games. Same day, 12 years apart.
July 10th, 1999 - USA top China 5-4 in PKs to win Women’s World Cup Final
July 10th, 2011 - USA top Brazil 5-3 in PKs to advance to WWC Semi-Final
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Fever Pitch: As an out U.S. Olympic soccer player, Megan Rapinoe’s got balls.
But Rapinoe has decided to pull off another landmark in women’s soccer: to come out and publicly discuss her sexuality.
“I feel like sports in general are still homophobic, in the sense that not a lot of people are out,” she says. “I feel everyone is really craving [for] people to come out. People want — they need — to see that there are people like me playing soccer for the good ol’ U.S. of A.”
Not that Rapinoe has been hiding anything; it’s just that no one ever asked her directly. “I think they were trying to be respectful and that it’s my job to say, ‘I’m gay.’ Which I am. For the record: I am gay,” she says. In fact, Rapinoe’s been dating her girlfriend, an Australian soccer player, for three years, and even brought her home to visit her family in Northern California last Christmas.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jkw9U3ue1qbov1ao1_400.jpg)
Fever Pitch: As an out U.S. Olympic soccer player, Megan Rapinoe’s got balls.
But Rapinoe has decided to pull off another landmark in women’s soccer: to come out and publicly discuss her sexuality.
“I feel like sports in general are still homophobic, in the sense that not a lot of people are out,” she says. “I feel everyone is really craving [for] people to come out. People want — they need — to see that there are people like me playing soccer for the good ol’ U.S. of A.”
Not that Rapinoe has been hiding anything; it’s just that no one ever asked her directly. “I think they were trying to be respectful and that it’s my job to say, ‘I’m gay.’ Which I am. For the record: I am gay,” she says. In fact, Rapinoe’s been dating her girlfriend, an Australian soccer player, for three years, and even brought her home to visit her family in Northern California last Christmas.
