#that 1 homophobe in the nwsl

[rollaroundincompliments]

Those of you who don't closely follow the US Women's Soccer Team may not know what's going on recently. You may remember the team being both very good and very gay, lead by purple haired lesbian Megan Rapinoe. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case and things with the team have quickly gone down hill following Rapinoe's retirement.

The Olympic roster was recently announced and included in it is a player who is openly and largely unapologetically homophobic. No public repercussions or criticisms of her views have come from the team. Rather fans are being shamed by the new head coach and told we should "learn to embrace" a player who so openly hates so many of us.

So I am here to inform you about some of the top queer players from other teams you should be rooting for if you, like me, do not want to support the US team during the Olympics this year.

#1 Marta (she/her)

Truly what is there to say about Marta that hasn't been said. The Brazilian Goat and the queen of women's soccer. The Olympics will be her last major tournament with the Brazilian national team and the world of soccer will be much poorer when she leaves.

She is also joined by many queer teammates including Debhina, Lauren, and Adriana

#2 Quinn (they/them)

In 2021 Quinn became the first openly nonbinary athlete to a win a gold medal, when Canada defeated Sweden for the top prize. Canada's strategy last Olympics was to be a defensive powerhouse and Quinn, as a defensive midfielder, played a huge role in that effort. They will very likely be on the roster this year to defend Canada's gold, joined by queer teammates Kadeisha Buchanan and Kailen Sheridan.

#3 Barbara Banda (she/her)

Barbara Banda, the Zambian phenomenon, is a fast, intelligent, and technically gifted player who is currently leading the Orlando Pride (NWSL team) to crush every record in the book including a 6-0 victory last weekend, after the first goal of which she ran directly to the pride flag to celebrate:

There are many many more queer players who are going to be at the womens soccer tournament during the Olympics, but these are three that absolutely deserve your support

[hardtchill]

I know you don’t like L chat but a non troll anon found this and I have to share. TW: Katie Cousins. It’s from a podcast she did after getting cut from ACFC.

First she's asked if the team was mostly lesbians (lol) and what the makeup of the roster was and she's like "It had me and two other Christians and then a bunch of teammates who I would say are probably in the LGBTQ community, and then a bunch of teenagers who are straight but at the same time very supportive of that community." And a "very, very, very limited number of people who agree with what I believe."

Said of the coaching and support staff, some were like "you believe what you believe, that's cool," and others who "are just like, no that's wrong. You can't believe that here. Because you know in the NWSL, they're like high advocates for the LGBTQ community and the human rights and women rights, all of it. Very bold and loud about it at the same time."

Then she talks about the day she made the repost on Instagram about the Rays players who refused to wear the Pride jersey (which is the thing that exposed her as a homophobe to fans). About how her phone started blowing up and all the messages she received.

Called people back home and was like "uhh my life just kind of blew up in Los Angeles. I remember texting my mom being like 'hey, your daughter is now public enemy #1 for Angel City."

Talks about how in college she was able to have these conversations (about the LGBTQ community) and it "was never a big deal or a problem."

Angel City made her put out an apology "but I was allowed to change the wording of it." Admits she wasn't apologizing for what she reposted, just for not realizing it would hurt people.

Then it was the Pride game (which she wasn't on the gameday roster of—so she didn't have to make a decision about the rainbow jerseys—but was gonna go to watch). The Angel City coach and team PR people called her and "highly encouraged" her to stay home "for my safety" since they couldn't outright tell her not to come. Claims they told her "your teammates don't want to see you, a lot of fans don't want to see you either right now." So she stayed home and watched with family from her church.

Didn't see most of her teammates for a couple days, "hadn't really been hearing from them, had no idea what they even thought about it. My coach was just telling me 'yeah they're not happy.'" Then the team went on a road trip and the coach told her she made the roster for that trip, which would be the first time seeing the team since the post happened. So they had a team Zoom call where they went "we all know Katie posted this harmful post but we're professionals, let's just go to Louisville, get the job done and be done."

"I had a best friend on the team, not a Christian but we played at Tennessee together for four years" and played together in Iceland, had been friends for 7 years. "So we obviously were talking, she knows what I believe and we're awesome friends. She was great the whole time, the whole 10 months I was there."

Went on a walk with one of the Christian teammates during those days after the IG post, the other Christian called to check in. "So it's not everyone on the team who was blocking me out." "The majority, I didn't hear from them until I saw them at practice right before the trip."

On the Louisville trip a bunch of her church people from home came. Around the team she kept to herself "which is not like me at all." "That whole month I was just trying to keep my head down, go to work every day. Not gonna lie I didn't want to work every day, I had a hard time just wanting to be there and being joyful about it."

Asked if the tension played out at practice: "I was friends with everyone on the team at that point and then when the incident happened, I still have teammates who to this day don't ever really talk to me anymore, who I was good friends with beforehand. And I kinda became the person that, like, alright, no one's really gonna go out of their way to talk to me, even just small talk, except a couple of my teammates I mentioned earlier. They were fine, they talked to me all the time. And all 3 of them knew I was struggling right now. Specifically in training, yeah there were times when I had teammates talk to me a certain way and I was like 'there's no way you'd talk to me before the incident and now...it was a shift I knew was happening. I don't know if they were intentionally trying to do it or it just naturally came out because of what happened. But I had some teammates and staff who treated me differently after what happened."

Says she knew a lot of conversations were happening without her from the players and the staff and front office about "what happened and me being on the team."

The team planned to talk about it as a team after it happened but then everyone wasn't there for the Louisville trip, and then the team had a week off, and then another break and the international players left. So "we never ended up talking about it and it was just boiling under the surface for a lot of people."

Thank you, this is good information

Basically to summarize, ACFC did nothing to solve this (as we expected) which is completely backwards for a team who claims to be all about inclusion.

And as fans we should be glad she is a mediocre player at best so we don't have to worry about another Korbin Albert situation.

[rjinswife]

good riddance 😌

[jxmieclayton]

I'd love your thoughts on Hinkle/ the hate the ncc gets bc of hinkle's homophobia. I'll admit, I hated on the courage for a while bc of Hinkle, bc as a part of the LGBT community, her comments hurt. I do love so many of the courage players (erceg is my fav). But at the end of the day, hinkle's views clearly dont represent the views of the entire team, so idk it just feels like the ncc hate bc of one person is a bit overboard.

(sry this took so long to get to this week ended up being incredibly more busy than I thought lol)

This is a rly good q!

My basic stance is that if u hate a team with 5 confirmed, out & proud gays (plus more that there are theories abt) on it because of one (1) homophobe, then that's a dumb reason. This team obviously doesn't share the same mindset as Hinkle and honestly none of us (the other ncc fans) like her either.

The hate ncc gets is v unwarranted tbh, if you hate them bc they're good and you think it's someone else's turn to win, good! That's a totally valid Sports(tm) mindset. If you hate them because there's a homophobe on the team then why don't you hate all the teams with racists?

Hot take maybe but the nwsl is a safe space for White Gays(tm). The fans perpetuate that.

If you have any other specific qs abt my mindset as an ncc fan or smth like thay I'd be happy to answer! I love my team a whole lot and I'm always happy to talk abt them!

[generalnewswonderfull]

NWSL suspends matches after accusations of sexual misconduct & harassment revealed

NWSL suspends matches after accusations of sexual misconduct & harassment revealed

The NWSL will not be playing the Oct. 1-2 slate of matches as players continue to voice concerns over allegations of sexual misconduct, inappropriate and homophobic comments and other questionable behavior detailed in a report by The Athletic which resulted in a coach’s termination later the same day. In the Sept. 30 story published in The Athletic, two players, Sinead Farrelly and Mana Shim,…

[miamarie1960]

Boring game so I thought I rank the NWSL teams in my “hate” list and why.

1. NCC - Paul Riley & Hinkle

2. Houston - Daly ( if Hinkle was to leave NCC the Dash would move right up there! ) And they play dirty. Did I mention Daly!

3. Utah - unpopular but I really don’t like A-Rod, never has. One redeeming quality; Christen Press!

4. Portland - They come off a bit arrogant somehow.

5. Reign - They are just very bland, love Pinoe but not a fan of Allie Long.

6. Washington - Used to like them when Ali & Ash played there but hated the homophobic owner & Gabarra. They did Ali dirty so they were higher up the ranking order but are dropping on my “hate-list” because of the younger players Lavelle, Sullivan etc.

7. Sky - the only thing to not like about Sky is Zerboni. One of the more reckless players I’ve seen. They can play an attractive soccer but seem often to be bit lost.

8. Chicago - Nothing to dislike except maybe that they seem to have lost their way somehow. When Press was traded.

9. Orlando - Nothing to hate! Love my Florida flops! 😁

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[hardtchill]

North Carolina declined to exercise the +1 on their homophobe. Angel City's homophobe is under contract until 2023 so Angel City needs to waive her, and I don't think they can do that right now per NWSL roster rules. Hopefully they will as soon as they can.

Well then they can step the fuck up and leave her off rosters until she finds a damn brain.

People kept saying during the season that ACFC couldn't do that (which i call bullshit on because teams can leave players off rosters for all kinds of reasons) but whatever. They can create a code of conduct for players if they didn't make one last year and if she can't be bothered to follow it she can sit at home and watch the game on tv.

I'm really just done with teams constantly protecting these assholes instead of for once actually setting proper consequences. She had an entire season to realize gay people won't kill her in her sleep, that's more time than she deserved.