Sexually deviant and militant lesbian, America-hating, enraged with every traditional foundation U.S. women’s soccer team player Megan Rapinoe.

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Alexi Lalas, who represented the United States in two World Cups, engaged in uncharacteristic understatement when describing the polarized relationship between the team and its fellow countrymen for Fox Sports.

“This team runs some Americans the wrong way,” he said. “I just hope going forward that this team is able to unite so we can all celebrate the incredible players and the incredible things to come.”

Yet Lalas also issued a stern warning to the players.

“This #USWNT is polarizing,” he tweeted. “Politics, causes, stances, & behavior have made this team unlikeable to a portion of America. This team has built its brand and has derived its power from being the best/winning. If that goes away they risk becoming irrelevant.” …

Mr. Lalas, they already are irrelevant. Nothing about them — nothing is about sport, or football/soccer, or representing one’s nation well.

By their fruits, they are known. And they are rotted to their core.

I am a huge fan of English Premier League football, of football/soccer in general, as it oft times lives up to its moniker as the beautiful game. But I have not been and could not be a fan of America’s women’s team for they did not play beautiful football matches or soccer games, but revealed continually, repeatedly the ugliness within their dark and lost souls, their cold bleak hearts, their captured minds, their sense of entitlement and thinking themselves as gods as they showed their hatred and denial of their Creator.

I wasn’t anti-American in rooting Sweden on to beat this American team. I knew the views, the words, the actions of almost every player on the U.S. team and could not support such.

By our fruits, we are all known.

When such fruits are only decayed, rotten from within and one can actually smell such rot and decay, sin and contempt, rebellion, and arrogance, self idolization one cannot place such rotted fruits near them for the awareness such rot is like a plume of toxic gases released wherein one would not want to inhale or be in the company of.

Such ought to be recognized for what it is, understood, and made irrelevant in the whole scheme of matters.

Sport is no longer sport. Sport has now become within every professional league and discipline primarily an evil anti-God let’s remove every foundation and replace them with our perverted and corrupted worldview.

Each succeeding season I become less and less interested in what is called sport as it no longer is sporting or about the game at hand, but about pushing a wicked, anti-God, anti-Bible, anti-Christian dogma using the blind rabid fanaticism, the idolization from the fan to blur what is really taking place, which is the continual and ramped up indoctrination of evil’s desires and agenda, rebelling against the foundations, against God, against traditional values, mores, and principals.

Thankfully, there is a growing awareness and pushback against this growing evil that has permeated what is called sport.

Anyone ever attending or watching on television a sporting event knows presently every sport, every league is pushing the sexually deviant, sexually immoral agenda in setting aside special days and nights, games, and events. Allowing players to vocalize and promote certain views while repressing others, even in certain instances penalizing individuals for speaking in opposition to the accepted mantra of the time. Reflecting the hypocrisy and true inherent rotted nature within us rather than focusing on, and attending to the game at hand. Foregoing the continual indoctrination and drum beat of evil upon the soul.

Parents, don’t let your daughters idolize, aspire, or grow up to be a Megan Rapinoe wannabe, a worshipper of Rapinoe, or the U.S. women’s soccer team in its recent past and present vocal and visible configuration.

Teach your children well. In the foundations of the Lord, in the Word. And what sport is really about. And that is not self, or to add to the anarchy, rebellion, and destruction of society, but to celebrate all that the Lord makes possible for each of us to do according to our God-given abilities and talents. To build character not to promote selfish, arrogant, rebellious character.

Some may think or say, “What’s the big deal? Why even bother with this?”

Because the influence is vast and huge. Captivating young minds, and even older hearts and minds. And this is not benign. It is part and parcel of the spiritual war every person is engaged in continually. That cannot be escaped.

And that is what was one of sports greatest aspects — to not have them tainted, infected, incorporating at the forefront of every event the push for evil to those gathered spectators in the stadiums, the arenas, or in front of their television sets. Now there is not a barrage of goals, runs, or points scored, but a barrage of dung spewed and pushed to see how many talking points can influence the spectator, the viewer, the fan. And everyone is told sternly to either comply or suffer the consequences.

As a result, society is suffering the consequences.

Yes, sport does reveal and reflect the sorry state, the woeful condition of our culture.

And there is primarily a foundational, a spiritual decline that then manifests itself in other visible, audible ways revealing that decline. Tragically, not recognized for what is really taking place as every other reason is attributed to the decline and erosion, the rot within, other than it being primarily spiritual at its core.

Sports no longer are sporting, or enjoyable or devoid of the spiritual warfare taking place around and within every person. Spiritual warfare within sports now takes precedence over the final scores on the scoreboards as evil attempts to tally enough points to win.

But I read the Book. I know the final outcome when the whistle blows. The clock runs out. And evil loses big, loses really big and eternally. As does everyone rotting for, belonging on evil’s side, evil’s team that opposed the Lord and His Word, His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023

America’s National Women’s Soccer Team Reflects a Nation’s Decline

Sport imitates culture.

August 22, 2023

By Joseph Hippolito

Reprinted from FrontPageMag

If sports reflect society, then nothing better illustrates the nation’s current condition than the performance and behavior of the United States team during the Women’s World Cup, which ended Sunday, and the overwhelming reaction to unexpected elimination.

For Americans, the tournament and its aftermath featured the toxic combination of “woke” politics, narcissism, entitlement, pervasive popular fatigue with all of the above and the accompanying politicized schadenfreude.

Since the Women’s World Cup began in 1991, the United States has dominated women’s soccer. The Americans won four championships — more than any other nation — finished second once and placed third three times in the eight previous tournaments. This year, the United States hoped to become the first squad — male or female — to win three successive World Cups.

But after winning only one of three group games and scoring just four goals in the process, the Americans lost to Sweden on penalty kicks in the Round of 16 on Aug. 6 after 120 scoreless minutes of regulation and extra time, soccer’s term for overtime.

Some soccer analysts attributed the defeat to the Americans’ inability to maintain possession or generate offensive creativity, let alone score. Some criticized coach Vlatko Andonovski’s unwillingness to change tactics or lineups. Some cited a roster that combined spent veterans with inexperienced young players.

But Carli Lloyd, a midfielder who won two Women’s World Cups and two Olympic gold medals for the United States, noticed a more disturbing cause.

“It is no longer we want to win because we want to win,” said Lloyd, whose 134 career goals ranks fourth internationally. “No, we want everything that comes with winning, and we think we can just roll out and win games. That’s not the case, and teams see that. They see the arrogance in the U.S. and see that they’re not this unstoppable team. They see that (the United States is) able to be broken down and beaten.”

Lloyd, working for Fox Sports as a commentator, used the Americans’ behavior after ending group play with a scoreless tie against Portugal to prove her point.

Several players danced, sang and took selfies with adoring fans, as Fox Sports showed. But if a late shot from Portugal’s Ana Capeta found the net rather than a goal post, the Americans would have been eliminated in group play for the first time.

“There’s a difference between being respectful of the fans and saying hello to your family, but to be dancing, to be smiling?” Lloyd asked. “I’ve never witnessed something like that. You’re lucky not to be going home right now.

“There’s too many distractions. There’s too much emphasis on ‘How many followers do I have?’ or doing photoshoots and doing this and doing that.”

The frivolity included midfielder Megan Rapinoe, one of the best players in American soccer history yet the dominant factor in alienating the fan base by turning the team into her own political toy.

In 2016, Rapinoe joined former quarterback Colin Kaepernick and began kneeling during the national anthem as a form of protest. She soon broke protocol by refusing to sing the anthem, and convinced teammates to join her. As a result, players refused either to sing or put their hands over their hearts as the anthem played at the Women’s World Cup or the Olympics. In other competitions, players wore shirts or warm-up jackets emblazoned with “Black Lives Matter.”

One former teammate last year said Rapinoe would intimidate anybody who disagreed.

“I’ve seen Megan Rapinoe almost bully players into kneeling because she really wants to stand up for something in her particular way,” said goalkeeper Hope Solo, who amassed a world-record 102 shutouts. “But it’s our right as Americans to do it whatever way we’re comfortable with, and I think that’s really hard being on the main stage right now with so many political issues for athletes.”

Rapinoe embraced and promoted all the “woke” causes, despite Americans’ growing contempt for them and their imposition. She openly opposed President Donald Trump and called herself a “walking protest” of his policies. A Lesbian, Rapinoe openly advocates gender ideology, including the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports. In the process, Rapinoe demonstrated contempt for parents concerned about the consequences to their daughters:

“I would also encourage everyone out there who is afraid someone’s going to have an unfair advantage over their kid to really take a step back and think what are we actually talking about here. We’re talking about people’s lives. I’m sorry, your kid’s high school volleyball team just isn’t that important. It’s not more important than any one kid’s life.”

By becoming a “woke” activist, Rapinoe sabotaged team morale.

“The culture has changed,” said Lloyd, the only American to stand for the anthem before the bronze-medal game at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. “It was really tough and challenging to be playing these last several years. I wanted to win and I wanted to help the team, but the culture within the team was the worst I’ve ever seen. To be quite honest, I hated it.”

Solo agreed.

“Every time I left for camp, I didn’t want to go,” she said last year. “I just wanted to be a professional athlete. I wanted to be cutthroat and I wanted to win. But you have to play the political game and the social game sometimes. I don’t think people really understand how difficult emotionally and mentally that is.”

Rapinoe also destroyed the team’s status as one of the most respected and admired groups of athletes in the country. These fans’ comments from the team’s victory parade in New York in 2019, as FrontPage Magazine reported at the time, demonstrate the disillusionment:

“I despise these women. I cheered for Mia Hamm and her team the first time the USA had a competitive women’s team in the World Cup, but not this team. … Not one of these players has said THANK YOU to the U.S. taxpayers who subsidized their little fantasy lives. Instead, they step all over our Flag, insult our Commander-in-Chief, and refuse to respect our National Anthem. Karma is going to come down hard on these people.”

“Our family have been big fans. It was a slow tumble to my indifference. Yesterday at parade didn’t help. My daughter attended 2 U.S. women’s games this year…and had four U.S. jerseys and other natl (sic) team. Instead of me taking her to NWSL games, we will be avoiding all women’s soccer, at least until things change.”

The NWSL is the National Women’s Soccer League, which means that Rapinoe’s uncompromising politics could endanger the growth of professional women’s soccer. The next comment succinctly describes the level of popular estrangement.

“I don’t like them because they clearly wouldn’t like me, either. They’re not the U.S. National Team because they hate what half the U.S. stands for. They’re the Democratic Party National Team.”

No wonder that after the United States defeat, conservatives took to social media and online outlets to express their utter joy at seeing the team lose and seeing Rapinoe embarrassed by badly missing her penalty kick.

“Americans would’ve liked to pull for this team,” a fan calling himself “superwolf” said. “But every time that we tried to embrace them, they spit back in our faces. That said, I am so glad they lost & even happier that she lost it for them.”

A commentator named “Dump the Uniparty” defended Americans rooting for Sweden:

“They weren’t rooting against the U.S. They were rooting against that collection of reprobates representing the U.S. Wearing the nation’s uniform is an honor. If you cannot appreciate that — or refuse to acknowledge it — then you shouldn’t get the privilege. Rapinoe insulted the nation’s backbone. Those who comprise it have every right to rejoice in her failure.”

Alexi Lalas, who represented the United States in two World Cups, engaged in uncharacteristic understatement when describing the polarized relationship between the team and its fellow countrymen for Fox Sports.

“This team runs some Americans the wrong way,” he said. “I just hope going forward that this team is able to unite so we can all celebrate the incredible players and the incredible things to come.”

Yet Lalas also issued a stern warning to the players.

“This #USWNT is polarizing,” he tweeted. “Politics, causes, stances, & behavior have made this team unlikeable to a portion of America. This team has built its brand and has derived its power from being the best/winning. If that goes away they risk becoming irrelevant.”

In other words, the most successful national team in American sports history risks becoming another casualty of the country’s accelerating cultural decline.