Megan Rapinoe reflects on playing for Team USA during Pride Month: 'Our team was super gay in 2019'

Unit USA women's soccer great Megan Rapinoe is standing by what she disclosed in You cannot win championships without the gays she mentioned to her wife Sue Bird during their A Touch More podcast Rapinoe revealed something to the same effect during Crew USA's Women's World Cup title run in after a quarterfinal success over France the host country of that year's tournament CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COM Go gays Rapinoe reported at the time per The Guardian You can't win a championship without gays on your company it's never been done before ever That's science right there I'm motivated by people who like me who are fighting for the same things I take more potency from that than from trying to prove anything wrong That's draining on yourself But for me to be gay and fabulous during Pride month at the World Cup is nice MEGAN RAPINOE OVERWHELMED BY ANOTHER TRUMP PRESIDENCY FEARFUL FOR THE TRANSGENDERIt's Pride Month now which brought about the question from Bird to Rapinoe about what it means to play during it Our group was super gay in Rapinoe responded A lot of us were out a lot of our fans were gay a lot of the other players were gay First and easiest thing to ensure you have is gay players on our association In Company USA had five players who were publicly LGBTQ players Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris two of the unit s stars were engaged at the time while coach Jillian Ellis was also out That year Outsports also released that around lesbian and bisexual players participated in the Women s World Cup compared to less than in Rapinoe aided Company USA's efforts in winning back-to-back World Cups in taking down the Netherlands - where Rapinoe scored a penalty kick in the st minute to take the lead Rapinoe had six goals and two assists during five matches in that Women's World Cup while scoring two goals and dishing out two assists in the win Group USA wasn't able to make it three straight in as they were eliminated by Sweden in penalty kicks Rapinoe made it known that the tournament would be her last World Cup and while she wished it ended differently she noted feeling so lucky and so grateful to play as long as I have Off the pitch Rapinoe has been outspoken including after the triumph where she noted I'm not going to the f---ing White House while President Donald Trump was in his first term She also described her Association USA peers to think hard about going to the White House before facing France in the quarterfinal prompting Trump to tweet out Megan should WIN first before she TALKS Finish the job We haven't yet Megan should never disrespect our Country the White House or our Flag especially since so much has been done for her the band Be proud of the Flag that you wear The USA is doing GREAT Trump added in his tweets at the time Rapinoe also commented on an earlier episode of her podcast with Bird after Trump beat former vice president Kamala Harris in the presidential vote saying she felt overwhelmed that he would be back in office I think that I feel not so much personally scared because I think that we live in very progressive places we re unbelievably privileged in our place in the world and life and financially and all of these things but I think that fear extends to just people in general that will be really affected Rapinoe explained to Bird I m thinking of all my trans friends and people that I know and trans kids I m thinking about the foreseen of mass deportations if that is going to happen and just like the general chaos that s going to be sown is really overwhelming In appearances with Gang USA in her career Rapinoe scored goals and had assists with her two World Cup titles She also had goals and assists in her -year professional league in the WPS and NWSL Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter