5 Things to Know About Megan Rapinoe, the Golden Boot Winner at This Year's World Cup
3. She is the first white athlete to protest singing the national anthem.first white athlete in 2016
to stop singing the national anthem, in solidarity with former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. When she was criticized for not singing the national anthem at this year's World Cup, Rapinoe responded by calling herself,"particularly and uniquely and very deeply American.
"I have to do everything I have to do on the field. Then, I have to do everything else to prove to you that that's enough," Rapinoe said in an."I have to somehow justify myself or convince you that what I just did was amazing. And I already just did it." This past week, Rapinoe also took a stand on the vast difference between the men's and women's FIFA World Cup prize money. At this year's Women's World Cup, teams competed for their share of a total prize money pot of
, while teams in the Men's World Cup in 2018 competed for their share of a prize money total of $400 million.on Saturday."We should double it now and use that number to double it or quadruple it for the next time. That's what I mean when we talk about, 'Do we feel respected?'"Yup, Rapinoe has a twin sister named Rachael, who happened to play soccer with her at the University of Portland.
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