The USWNT spoke up, they stood their ground, they taunted, they sipped tea, they were joyously defiant from the very beginning. And that’s why they’ll go down in history in a way that even previous Women’s World Cup champions won’t. williamfleitch writes
Photo: Jose Breton/NurPhoto via Getty Images While most of you spent the long weekend grilling, enjoying quality time with your family, and blowing off your fingers with celebratory explosives like normal people, I rewatched O.J.: Made in America, Ezra Edelman’s Oscar-winning ESPN Films eight-hour 2016 documentary about O.J.
Which is one of the many, many reasons that the USWNT’s Women’s World Cup victory on Sunday was so deeply thrilling. When your team wins a championship, it is pure, unadulterated joy: Millions of people dream of winning a World Cup, but only these women get to do it. If the members of the USWNT had done nothing but drink shitty flavored vitamin water and monotonously do ad reads for Equifax, it would still have been a monumental, jaw-dropping achievement.
One should always be careful of assigning any sort of ethics to one’s sports fandom: No matter how hard you try, you’ll never be fully pure. But the USWNT’s win, and specifically team captain Rapinoe’s winning the Golden Boot and hoisting the trophy in both exhilaration and defiance, felt like the good guys winning during an age when the good guys seem to always be taking it on the chin.
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