Piers Morgan calls out Megan Rapinoe over ‘lack of ardour for her nation’
Piers Morgan blasted Megan Rapinoe and the US ladies’s nationwide workforce with a fierce message.
The controversial information anchor, 58, has all the time taken a specific dislike to Rapinoe, the two-time Women’s World Cup winner, who can be identified for her activism away from and on the pitch. Rapinoe, 38, divided opinion when she knelt through the nationwide anthem in solidarity with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, to protest police brutality and racial injustice.
As effectively as turning into the primary white athlete to make the gesture in 2016, she additionally stopped singing the nationwide anthem whereas representing her nation. Despite the very fact she retired final 12 months after Sweden knocked the USA out of the World Cup, Morgan nonetheless took a while out of his day to have an enormous dig at her on X, previously Twitter.
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Morgan got here throughout a video of the USA junior ice hockey workforce celebrating their victory by singing the Star Spangled Banner in unison. They overcame Sweden to win the gold medal on the IIHF World Junior Championship.
Many US followers on social media praised the workforce’s present of unity and patriotism. While additionally doing the identical, Morgan discovered a chance to take a dig at Rapinoe and her former team-mates.
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Morgan retweeted the video and stated: “Brilliant. If you possibly can’t deliver your self to sing your National Anthem with this sort of ardour, don’t play sport to your nation,” while also tagging Rapinoe and the USWNT on X.
Considering Rapinoe did not interact with the video, you could say it was an unprovoked swipe from the former Britain’s Got Talent host. It’s not the first time he has poured scorn over Rapinoe and her team-mates. When they got knocked out of the World Cup, Morgan used his column in the New York Post to vehemently chastise Team USA.
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After Rapinoe missed a vital penalty within the penalty shoot-out which noticed them exit the competitors, Morgan slammed the workforce as “unpatriotic losers”. He added: “It was peak Rapinoe: Supremely arrogant, annoyingly self-aggrandising, and all about the money.
“It’s arduous to think about an American sporting workforce that’s made the nation really feel much less proud than this bunch of ‘activist’ prima donnas.”
