Leading gracefully in the fight for equal treatment

Leaders for change: Becky Sauerbrunn, Alex Morgan, Christen Press and Megan Rapinoe with the US national team in the Women's World Cup Champions Parade in New York in 2019. – Reuters/File Photo

DURING the last Summer Olympics, former US President Donald Trump encouraged attendees of a rally to boo the US women’s football national team, and, following the team’s failure to qualify for the gold medal game, stating that if “our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze”.

Similarly, Trump’s antagonist, national team star Megan Rapinoe, tweeted inflammatory words following allegations of harassment and sexual abuse affecting the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL): “Burn it all down. Let their heads roll.”