Megan Rapinoe Contemplating Retirement After Tokyo Didn’t Go Her Way

USWNT standout Megan Rapinoe, who fancies herself to be the “woke” Colin Kaepernick of the women’s soccer world, is considering retiring from the sport in the wake of the women’s team taking home the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

Megan Rapinoe Is ‘Thinking About’ Retiring From Soccer

Fox News reported that Rapinoe, 36, was asked if she planned to retire in a new interview this week.

“Just in terms of my whole career, I don’t really know yet. I need to take some time to think about it,” Rapinoe said. “They always say, ‘You’ll know when you know,’ but it’s not really like that, because you could kind of keep going, and it’s like ‘Aw yeah, you’ve accomplished so much, you’ll be fine stepping away.’ But the conversation is always anguished in your mind. Or people just don’t think about it. I’ve been thinking about it a lot.”

Related: Megan Rapinoe Pressured Other Players To Kneel During Anthem Says USWNT Goalie Hope Solo

USWNT Teammate Carli Lloyd Retiring 

This came after Rapinoe’s USWNT teammate Carli Lloyd announced on Monday that she is retiring. 

“I feel like people just think play as long as you can and that’s amazing — you want to play forever — but it’s actually like, no, it is really hard to do that,” Rapinoe said of Lloyd. “There are so few athletes who play to her age or play as long as she has. It’s not just about staying healthy and being able to physically be there, which is difficult in and of itself.”

“It’s about continually growing and making sure your game is evolving,” she added, according to ESPN. “For me, it’s the fact she ended her career with an incredible brace in a medal match at the Olympics — just says it all. That’s the sort of person Carli was. As productive as ever.

“She has so many appearances, so many goals,” Rapinoe stated. “So many memorable goals as well. It’s all good and well to score five goals against teams that don’t really matter, but I think Aaron Heifetz, our media relations guy, said that every medal match Carli played in she scored a goal. That’s greatness. She’s unbelievable. Showing up in the biggest moments, that’s what you want from your biggest players.”

Megan Rapinoe’s ‘Woke’ Olympics Protest

Rapinoe led the charge in her team taking a knee during the national anthem before their opening Olympics match against Sweden, which they ended up losing in a shocking upset. 

Afterwards, former President Donald Trump spoke out to slam Rapinoe and her team for being more focused on being “woke” than on winning. 

“If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze,” Trump said. “Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has. They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again.”

Related: Megan Rapinoe And Team Suffer Humiliating Loss To Canada, Gold Medal Out Of Reach

Just this week USWNT goalie Hope Solo opened up about how Rapinoe pressured teammates to kneel during the anthem.

Megan Rapinoe has shown herself to be such a massive distraction that her retiring may ultimately be the best thing for the USWNT.