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Informationen zum Autor Author Stefanie Loh is the Features Editor of the Seattle Times , and writes about sports, food, and pop culture. She is also the author of Who Is Chloe Kim? Klappentext "On July 7, 2019, Megan Rapinoe ran out onto the field to play in her third Women's World Cup final. Determined to succeed after having to sit out of the semifinals due to an injury, Megan scored the first goal of the match. Thanks to this goal, Team USA won the Women's World Cup, and Megan added yet another victory to her impressive record. In her career, Megan has won Olympic gold medals, several World Cup trophies, ESPY Awards, and more. Not only is Megan a fierce competitor on the field, she's also a brave activist who stands up for the rights of LGBTQIA+ individuals like herself. Learn about Megan Rapinoe's incredible soccer career and inspiring life as an activist in this book for young readers!"-- Leseprobe Who Is Megan Rapinoe? The pressure was on as the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) took the field on June 28, 2019, for the FIFA Women’s World Cup quarterfinal against France. The US team entered the tournament ranked number one in the world, after going undefeated in seventeen matches in the year leading up to this World Cup. But France had broken the Americans’ unbeaten streak with a 3–1 win in a friendly match in January. Now, they’d play again with a semifinal spot at stake. With her pink hair, easy smile, and wicked goal-scoring abilities, American striker Megan Rapinoe had become one of the fan favorites of the USWNT as the Americans blazed through the tournament. Megan had scored two exciting goals to power her team through their round of sixteen matches against Spain. And now, she was determined to help bring them into the semifinals. The Parc des Princes stadium in Paris was packed to capacity with more than forty-five thousand people as Megan put the Americans ahead in the fifth minute with a free-kick goal from twenty-two yards out. The ball snuck through the legs of the players jostling in front of the goal and slotted neatly into the corner. Even though France was the host nation, American fans filled the stands, and as they roared to celebrate the goal, Megan proudly spun toward the fans and threw open her arms with a wide grin on her face in a now-famous pose. But Megan wasn’t done. She struck again when Tobin Heath sent the ball rocketing to an onrushing Megan, who scored from eight yards out! That put the US up 2–0. And even though the French would score on a free kick in the eighty-first minute, they never caught up. At the final whistle, Megan and her teammates celebrated wildly. Megan’s goals had sent them to the semifinals! The triumphant pose Megan struck after her first goal against France became known as her power pose, and it appeared everywhere in photos and news articles about the Americans’ big semifinal win over the host nation. It was printed on posters, mugs, and T-shirts. As the US Women’s National Team rolled to a gold medal in the World Cup, this bold lesbian striker with a big personality and an air of fearlessness both on and off the pitch would transcend her sport to become known as an activist and a legend. Chapter 1: Young Megan Megan Rapinoe and her twin sister, Rachael (fraternal twins do not look alike), were born on July 5, 1985, in Redding, California. The twins were the youngest of six children, and they were inseparable. They spent their childhood running around the empty field across from the house, riding bikes, playing hide-and-seek and laser tag, and catching crawdads at the nearby creek. The girls particularly looked up to their older brother Brian, who played soccer. They wandered the sidelines at Brian’s practices, watching and copying his moves. At age six, they joined a boys’ Under-8 soccer team because...
