Horan assisted both of the team’s goals against Brazil in a performance her manager said he'd been hoping for. With the benefit of Julie Ertz’s defensive work behind her, Horan has the freedom to roam, and she popped up in the right place in two moments that made the difference in the game.
Horan was everywhere against Brazil, picking up the ball in pockets of space and spraying passes all over the field. With less competition for minutes in central midfield, Horan has delivered – especially on Sunday.
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With Sam Mewis sidelined by injury, Lindsey Horan has taken full advantage by playing nearly every minute of the first two games of the tournament. Ultimately, with kneeling no longer an option for visibility, the team must double down on making its efforts to combat racial injustice seen and heard. Doing the work may be a more concrete form of activism than a simple gesture like kneeling, but a team as visible as the USWNT has the platform to call attention to any issue of their choosing. There will be debate as to whether the team is doing the right thing by ending its protest phase. "I think we're all proud that we are doing the work behind the scenes and it was just a game that we felt we were ready to move into the next phase and just continuously fight for change." "We never felt we were going to kneel forever, so there was always going to be a time that we felt it was time to stand. "Those that were collectively kneeling felt like we were kneeling to bring about attention to police brutality and systemic racism, and I think we decided that moving forward we no longer feel the need to kneel because we are doing the work behind the scenes," Dunn said. Though every player stood for the anthem before the game, the display of 11 players all pulling in the same direction doesn’t necessarily mean that direction was the correct one.Īfter the game Crystal Dunn, who has been one of the more outspoken USWNT players regarding racial injustice, said the team decided as a collective that the time for protest had passed, replaced by a time for action. On Sunday, the USWNT was, once again, united. The tableau produced was one of a team divided. The USWNT has now had five matches since the policy was reversed and the anthem was much the same in the first four of those games: most players knelt while a few – usually two to four – stood. Last summer, amid the nationwide protests stemming from George Floyd’s killing, that policy was reversed. Soccer instituted a new rule that required players to “stand respectfully” for the pre-game song. 'We never felt we were going to kneel forever'Īfter Megan Rapinoe first knelt during the national anthem in 2016, U.S. adidas Football & the rise of the fourth kit.Adel Taarabt: The show-pony in London turned happy workhorse in Lisbon.
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