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Sports Culture and Women’s Soccer
In 2019, the U.S. women’s soccer team took a second World Cup victory with much fanfare and celebration. However, the U.S. team was criticized for their very visible celebrations. When player Alex Morgan pretended to take a sip of tea after scoring the game-winning goal in the semifinal with England, she was called out for what some called a boastful “in-your-face” dig at the English (and their tea-drinking customs). Morgan claimed her gesture was a reference to “That’s the tea” — meaning a news update — and explained that Sophie Turner (of Sansa Stark fame on HBO’s Game of Thrones) is one of her favorite actresses and says “And that’s the tea” to close out social media video updates. Besides, Morgan claimed, men’s sports teams engage in much more flamboyant celebrations than she did without punishment.
Forward and cocaptain Megan Rapinoe also drew criticism when she refused to sing the national anthem or put her hand over her heart and said she’d never go to the White House to celebrate a World Cup win. Visible for her political activism as well as her athletic prowess and her purple hair, Rapinoe drew headlines like this one: “Purple-haired lesbian goddess flattens France like a crêpe” (Theisen, 2019). The coverage of Rapinoe and the rest of the team called attention to changing, and unequal, norms for the self-expression of female athletes, as well as to differing perceptions of what it means to be a “good sport.”