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Rapinoe's memoir shares inspiring, heartfelt, and painful experiences from her journey, including her family's political differences and her fight for equal pay. The book also touches on her activism and success in soccer.
I think was in sports. We often go to like what's your salary and how many people are watching you or how many people in the stadium, but it really starts a lot before that you have to think of it lik...
— Episode: The Women of US Soccer
Episode: The Women of US Soccer
Rapinoe's memoir shares inspiring, heartfelt, and painful experiences from her journey, including her family's political differences and her fight for equal pay. The book also touches on her activism and success in soccer.
I think was in sports. We often go to like what's your salary and how many people are watching you or how many people in the stadium, but it really starts a lot before that you have to think of it like a business that needs to be invested in and you know, if the NBA is getting a billion dollars in investment. The WNBA is getting, you know, even a hundred million dollars of investment like one business is going to be more successful if you spend more on your marketing person and your branding person and your ticket your CEO and you have all these people like the business is going to run better. So by the time we get to the game, we've been so under invested in or at such a disadvantage the whole time like it's shocking that we have as much success as we do or as popular as we do as we are.
Yeah, it made me really emotional was a really touching moment. And I think that's the probably the most rewarding and the most important part out of our team's fight with the Federation and the lawsuits and the equal pay fight is like, yeah, of course we're doing it on our behalf but still in the grand scheme like we're so privileged. We still make a lot of money. We're still like superstars of some some kind but for so many women out there like it's my aunt in her job. It's you know, a domestic worker or it's a restaurant workers like it's so difficult to do these things even in our position. It's difficult. So to know that we've inspired or at least made people think you know down to every single level is like that's the biggest win. I think that we could have.