Emails obtained by BuzzFeed News show that in 2017, US Soccer suggested a player who violated the policy twice could be suspended for a year.
Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan during the National Anthem before a friendly match at Allianz Field on September 3, 2019 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
US Soccer will hold a special board meeting Tuesday to discuss its anthem policy, which goes beyond even the National Football League’s rules in its attempts to limit players’ ability to protest. It requires players to “stand respectfully” during the anthem at national team games. When it passed in 2017, no board members voted against it.
“For a second offense, the player would be suspended from participating in national team activities for twelve months.” But after US Soccer’s anthem policy was made public in early March, Ellis invited Rapinoe back into the team’s next training camp just two weeks later — long before she had played any games with her club team.
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