Megan Rapinoe would not intend for the USWNT to depart Tokyo empty handed.
The US ladies’s nationwide crew star harassed the significance of profitable the bronze medal within the Tokyo Olympics Monday in an interview with NBC and a subsequent press convention. Crew USA was aiming to win the ladies’s soccer competitors, however its quest for gold ended on a 1-0 loss to Canada within the semifinals. Rapinoe revealed to NBC what she informed her teammates after the defeat.
“Nonetheless quite a bit to compete for. That is what I informed the ladies, and we talked about it within the (post-game) huddle,” Rapinoe stated. “It isn’t the colour we would like, however there’s nonetheless a medal on the road. That is an enormous factor, and we wish to win that recreation.”
Reporters questioned Rapinoe, 36, about her future on the worldwide stage, however she repeated her message about profitable the subsequent recreation.
“I used to be questioning how rapidly that query would come,” Rapinoe stated, per ESPN’s Caitlin Murray. “You guys try to place me out to pasture already.
“Any medal is de facto particular and I believe we will not lose sight of that, , particularly contemplating the yr that everybody’s gone by way of, and what it is taken simply to be right here, what it takes to even simply be on the WNT,” Rapinoe concluded, per The Athletic’s Meg Linehan.
The USWNT will conclude its Olympic marketing campaign Thursday when it faces Australia within the bronze medal recreation. Kickoff is scheduled for 4 a.m. ET.
