Star soccer player Megan Rapinoe has publicly criticized Korbin Albert, a young midfielder for Paris Saint-Germain (Psg) and the U.S. Women’s National Team (Uswnt), for her propagation of anti-lgbtq content and posts that mocked Rapinoe’s career-ending Achilles injury.
The two-time World Cup winner released a strong statement in response to Albert’s social media activity that expressed her disappointment and called for greater inclusivity and respect within the sport.
Albert, a 20-year-old midfielder who previously played for Notre Dame before she went professional in France, came under scrutiny when fans noticed that she had reposted several pieces of anti-lgbtq content on her TikTok account. Additionally, one fan discovered that Albert had liked a post that made light of Rapinoe’s ankle injury in her farewell game.
Rapinoe took to her Instagram Story to address the issue, though she didn’t mention Albert by name, questioned whether Albert...
The two-time World Cup winner released a strong statement in response to Albert’s social media activity that expressed her disappointment and called for greater inclusivity and respect within the sport.
Albert, a 20-year-old midfielder who previously played for Notre Dame before she went professional in France, came under scrutiny when fans noticed that she had reposted several pieces of anti-lgbtq content on her TikTok account. Additionally, one fan discovered that Albert had liked a post that made light of Rapinoe’s ankle injury in her farewell game.
Rapinoe took to her Instagram Story to address the issue, though she didn’t mention Albert by name, questioned whether Albert...
- 3/30/2024
- by Baila Eve Zisman
- Uinterview
The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup will be Megan Rapinoe’s last.
The four-time World Cup veteran has had many great moments as a member of the United States Women’s National Soccer Team. The Uswnt will compete for a fifth championship after claiming victory in 1991, 1999, 2015 and 2019. This year’s tournament will take place in Australia and New Zealand with the first match of group play between New Zealand and Norway kicking off July 20. Australia will take on the Republic of Ireland shortly after, and two more matches that day will see Nigeria take on Canada and the Philippines take on Switzerland.
Group play extends to Thursday, August 3 before elimination rounds begin as the tournament narrows down the competition for a champion. The United States will also face the Netherlands and Portugal in Group E.
Read more details on how to watch the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup below:
When...
The four-time World Cup veteran has had many great moments as a member of the United States Women’s National Soccer Team. The Uswnt will compete for a fifth championship after claiming victory in 1991, 1999, 2015 and 2019. This year’s tournament will take place in Australia and New Zealand with the first match of group play between New Zealand and Norway kicking off July 20. Australia will take on the Republic of Ireland shortly after, and two more matches that day will see Nigeria take on Canada and the Philippines take on Switzerland.
Group play extends to Thursday, August 3 before elimination rounds begin as the tournament narrows down the competition for a champion. The United States will also face the Netherlands and Portugal in Group E.
Read more details on how to watch the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup below:
When...
- 7/20/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Roger Bennett, the indefatigable co-founder of the soccer podcasting franchise Men in Blazers, has never played a second of competitive soccer. Since 2011, when he launched a lo-fi weekly(-ish) gab session with fellow bald British-expat soccer obsessive Michael Davies, a successful game show producer, Bennett has focused on the human stories behind the game rather than the intricacies of field strategy, of which he admittedly knew little at first. But as he demonstrated on a recent Zoom meeting with a current member of the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team who shall remain nameless, he has mastered the X’s and O’s of the charm offensive.
His objective for the meeting was to persuade the player to join the growing roster of voices featured on Men in Blazers as it seeks to expand beyond “Rog and Davo,” as the two hosts call themselves. Bennett laid his best lines...
His objective for the meeting was to persuade the player to join the growing roster of voices featured on Men in Blazers as it seeks to expand beyond “Rog and Davo,” as the two hosts call themselves. Bennett laid his best lines...
- 3/29/2023
- by Julian Sancton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Alex Morgan at the 5th Anniversary Gold Meets Golden event at The House on Sunset. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/F. Sadou/AdMedia
Ahead of several games on the pitch next month, soccer star Alex Morgan has been enjoying some free time with family, as she showed in a recent photo share.
The 33-year-old Olympic gold medal and two-time World Cup winner was all smiles as she posed in an adorable picture with her daughter and husband.
The image features Morgan wearing a tiny pink bikini and dark shades as she holds up Charlie Elena while husband Servando Carrasco keeps an arm around them.
Servando wears a pair of blue, green, and yellow floral-pattern swim trunks while Charlie matches mom, wearing a pink and white swimsuit and a colorful bow in her hair. The trio posed near large rocks for the gorgeous beach scene in the water.
“San Diego Sundays,” Morgan...
Ahead of several games on the pitch next month, soccer star Alex Morgan has been enjoying some free time with family, as she showed in a recent photo share.
The 33-year-old Olympic gold medal and two-time World Cup winner was all smiles as she posed in an adorable picture with her daughter and husband.
The image features Morgan wearing a tiny pink bikini and dark shades as she holds up Charlie Elena while husband Servando Carrasco keeps an arm around them.
Servando wears a pair of blue, green, and yellow floral-pattern swim trunks while Charlie matches mom, wearing a pink and white swimsuit and a colorful bow in her hair. The trio posed near large rocks for the gorgeous beach scene in the water.
“San Diego Sundays,” Morgan...
- 8/25/2022
- by Matt Couden
- Monsters and Critics
After decades of pay inequality — and a six-year legal battle that ended with a settlement earlier this year — the U.S. Women’s National Team revealed Wednesday that they’ve entered in a new collective bargaining agreement that ensures they’ll be paid the same as the U.S. men’s soccer team.
For years, the Uswnt has attempted to be paid the same as their male counterparts, and the new agreement with the United States Soccer Federation, which runs through 2028, makes sure both teams receive “equal pay through identical...
For years, the Uswnt has attempted to be paid the same as their male counterparts, and the new agreement with the United States Soccer Federation, which runs through 2028, makes sure both teams receive “equal pay through identical...
- 5/18/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The HBO Max documentary Lfg chronicles the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s fight for equal pay with the men’s team. But Team USA captain Becky Sauerbrunn and directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine appeared on a panel for the film at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event and said equal pay is about more than just money.
“Ultimately how you’re paid is how you’re valued,” Nix Fine said. “It’s about respect and control in a way of how you perform your best in a workplace, on the soccer field, as an individual, across the table in any kind of discussion.”
Sauerbrunn said the team feels they are fighting for future generations of the women’s national team. They do not expect change to come while they are still playing.
“We’re not going to benefit from it and that’s Ok,” Sauerbrunn said.
“Ultimately how you’re paid is how you’re valued,” Nix Fine said. “It’s about respect and control in a way of how you perform your best in a workplace, on the soccer field, as an individual, across the table in any kind of discussion.”
Sauerbrunn said the team feels they are fighting for future generations of the women’s national team. They do not expect change to come while they are still playing.
“We’re not going to benefit from it and that’s Ok,” Sauerbrunn said.
- 11/21/2021
- by Fred Topel
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix announced the final season of “Dear White People” will launch Sept. 22 and be a musical season.
“The only way to move forward is to throw it back,” a teaser for the season previews. From there a cover of Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It” kicks into gear.
The teaser also shows the students getting ready to dance, with snapping of hands and getting into formation to perform Jordan’s 1995 hit. There is an Afro-futuristic and 1990s-inspired dance floor, as the students of the fictional Winchester University look back on their time on campus amid their final year.
“Dear White People,” an extension of the film of the same name by Justin Simien, deals with issues of race, class and sexuality on that college campus. Logan Browning’s Sam White hosts a radio show within the series that is also titled “Dear White People” and is where...
“The only way to move forward is to throw it back,” a teaser for the season previews. From there a cover of Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It” kicks into gear.
The teaser also shows the students getting ready to dance, with snapping of hands and getting into formation to perform Jordan’s 1995 hit. There is an Afro-futuristic and 1990s-inspired dance floor, as the students of the fictional Winchester University look back on their time on campus amid their final year.
“Dear White People,” an extension of the film of the same name by Justin Simien, deals with issues of race, class and sexuality on that college campus. Logan Browning’s Sam White hosts a radio show within the series that is also titled “Dear White People” and is where...
- 8/6/2021
- by Jennifer Yuma and Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
“Lfg” is the latest example of how women must work twice as hard to earn just a fraction of the respect — and in this case, the money — that their male counterparts get. The new documentary, named after a pre-game rallying cry (“let’s f—ing go”), follows the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team as all 28 players sue their own federation in demand of equal pay.
The team filed the lawsuit in March 2019, less than three months before the World Cup victory that would cement their status as the most successful team in women’s soccer and render the wage gap an unavoidable issue. Although the lawsuit was partially settled last year, “Lfg” asserts the fight is far from over.
Ahead of Uswnt’s hotly anticipated appearance at the Tokyo Olympics this summer, check out some of the biggest revelations from their battle off the field.
1. The U.S.
The team filed the lawsuit in March 2019, less than three months before the World Cup victory that would cement their status as the most successful team in women’s soccer and render the wage gap an unavoidable issue. Although the lawsuit was partially settled last year, “Lfg” asserts the fight is far from over.
Ahead of Uswnt’s hotly anticipated appearance at the Tokyo Olympics this summer, check out some of the biggest revelations from their battle off the field.
1. The U.S.
- 6/24/2021
- by Alex Noble
- The Wrap
‘Lfg’ Review: Bring Out the Vuvuzelas as the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Takes on Its Employer
A handful of players from the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team riff on what the letters Lfg — their rallying cry — stand for exactly. The flow of close-ups in the winning and timely doc “Lfg,” from Jennifer McDonald to Samantha Mewis to Kelley O’Hara to Megan Rapinoe to Becky Sauerbrunn, has the feel of a pre-match kick around. Only, for all their ease, there’s also a focus that epitomizes the four-time World Cup victors.
Now streaming on HBO Max after its Tribeca Festival premiere, directors Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine’s factually compelling, unapologetically smitten film follows the team after they file a lawsuit against their employer, the U.S. Soccer Federation, for equal pay. Along the way (and it’s a long way to pay equity for professional female athletes), the team kicks some balls and some butt on the field, then weathers the coronavirus pandemic,...
Now streaming on HBO Max after its Tribeca Festival premiere, directors Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine’s factually compelling, unapologetically smitten film follows the team after they file a lawsuit against their employer, the U.S. Soccer Federation, for equal pay. Along the way (and it’s a long way to pay equity for professional female athletes), the team kicks some balls and some butt on the field, then weathers the coronavirus pandemic,...
- 6/24/2021
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
These women are aiming for the goal—and the gold. The 2020 U.S. Olympic soccer team was officially named by head coach Vlatko Andonovski on Wednesday, June 23 and we can promise you'll recognize at least one of these incredible athletes. After all, more than half of these players were members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic soccer team in Brazil. The 18 players include goalkeepers Adrianna Franch and Alyssa Naeher; defenders Abby Dahlkemper, Tierna Davidson, Crystal Dunn, Kelley O'Hara, Becky Sauerbrunn and Emily Sonnett; midfielders Julie Ertz, Lindsey Horan, Rose Lavelle, Kristie Mewis and Samantha Mewis; and forwards Tobin Heath, Carli Lloyd, Alex...
- 6/23/2021
- E! Online
"Anything less than winning is a failure." CNN Films & HBO Max have unveiled the first official trailer for a documentary titled Lfg, about the World Cup-winning U.S. Women's Soccer Team. This is premiering at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival this month, and also playing at AFI Docs this summer, before streaming on HBO Max in just a few weeks. This riveting film follows Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O'Hara, Christen Press, Sam Mewis, and Julie Foudy, as they sue the United States Soccer Federation over pay discrimination. "A no-holds-barred, inside account of the U.S. women’s national team’s ongoing fight for equal pay." Described by Tribeca as "groundbreaking story that captures a defining moment in the lives of these women, and in the history of women’s sports and gender equality." It looks like an invigorating film about the fight for equality. That No Doubt song...
- 6/14/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
HBO Max has released the official trailer for Lfg, an upcoming documentary about the U.S. women’s soccer team’s fight for equal pay. The film is set to premiere on the streaming service on June 24th.
With a whopping four World Cups and four Olympic gold medals won over the past 30 years, the Uswnt is one of the most decorated teams in sports, but as the trailer shows, they’ve consistently been underpaid compared to their counterparts on the U.S. men’s team (who have zero World...
With a whopping four World Cups and four Olympic gold medals won over the past 30 years, the Uswnt is one of the most decorated teams in sports, but as the trailer shows, they’ve consistently been underpaid compared to their counterparts on the U.S. men’s team (who have zero World...
- 6/14/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Former Discovery commissioner and co-founder of Say Yes To The Dress producer Half-Yard Productions Abby Greensfelder is on a mission to create more female-led stories in the non-scripted space.
Greensfelder set up Everywoman Studios after she left Red Arrow-owned Half-Yard and is now in the middle of putting together a slate of projects, including a soccer doc for HBO Max, a cooking series featuring immigrant grandmothers and a cult doc series from Eva Orner.
“My plan is to create stories by and about women, especially in spaces where we don’t typically see women in content,” she told Deadline. “I programmed Discovery, which was a male skewing channel, and there were all of these spaces such as sports, the outdoors, science, exploration, space and none of them had any women in these shows. All these years later, I wanted to find stories that appealed to everyone, they’re very...
Greensfelder set up Everywoman Studios after she left Red Arrow-owned Half-Yard and is now in the middle of putting together a slate of projects, including a soccer doc for HBO Max, a cooking series featuring immigrant grandmothers and a cult doc series from Eva Orner.
“My plan is to create stories by and about women, especially in spaces where we don’t typically see women in content,” she told Deadline. “I programmed Discovery, which was a male skewing channel, and there were all of these spaces such as sports, the outdoors, science, exploration, space and none of them had any women in these shows. All these years later, I wanted to find stories that appealed to everyone, they’re very...
- 4/13/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In 2019, three months before the FIFA Women’s World Cup, the players filed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, alleging gender discrimination. The new HBO Max documentary Lfg chronicles this story as well as the team’s ongoing fight for equal pay, featuring interviews with Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O’Hara, Sam Mewis, and […]
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- 3/9/2021
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Netflix is going back Down to Earth With Zac Efron for a second season, which has begun production in Australia, our sister site Deadline reports.
Slated to air later this year, the upcoming run finds Efron and wellness expert Darin Olien traveling across Australia in search of healthy, sustainable ways to live, while embracing local food, culture and customs along the way.
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Down to Earth‘s first season,...
Slated to air later this year, the upcoming run finds Efron and wellness expert Darin Olien traveling across Australia in search of healthy, sustainable ways to live, while embracing local food, culture and customs along the way.
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Down to Earth‘s first season,...
- 3/8/2021
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
HBO Max is celebrating International Women’s Day by announcing the upcoming documentary Lfg (aka Let’s F*cking Go). The docu from Oscar winners Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine gives a no-holds-barred, inside account of the U.S. women’s national team’s ongoing fight for equal pay as told by Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O’Hara, Sam Mewis among others.
Three months before the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the players filed a class-action, gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, which sets the stage for Lfg. The film interweaves transcendent athletic performances, including a record-breaking World Cup victory in 2019, with the players’ ongoing pursuit for equal pay. Lfg grants viewers unprecedented access to these game-changers as they meet the physical demands and pressures of being some of the world’s top athletes, while showcasing their courage, unflinching spirit and resiliency in an...
Three months before the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the players filed a class-action, gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, which sets the stage for Lfg. The film interweaves transcendent athletic performances, including a record-breaking World Cup victory in 2019, with the players’ ongoing pursuit for equal pay. Lfg grants viewers unprecedented access to these game-changers as they meet the physical demands and pressures of being some of the world’s top athletes, while showcasing their courage, unflinching spirit and resiliency in an...
- 3/8/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO Max and CNN Films are teaming on a feature doc about the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s ongoing fight for equal pay.
Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine are behind Lfg, which chronicles the class-action, gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation filed three months before the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which was won by the U.S. team. Lfg will feature interviews with players Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O’Hara and Sam Mewis, among others.
“This fight is so much bigger than ourselves and the Women’s National Team,” said Rapinoe. “We’re doing ...
Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine are behind Lfg, which chronicles the class-action, gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation filed three months before the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which was won by the U.S. team. Lfg will feature interviews with players Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O’Hara and Sam Mewis, among others.
“This fight is so much bigger than ourselves and the Women’s National Team,” said Rapinoe. “We’re doing ...
HBO Max and CNN Films are teaming on a feature doc about the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s ongoing fight for equal pay.
Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine are behind Lfg, which chronicles the class-action, gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation filed three months before the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which was won by the U.S. team. Lfg will feature interviews with players Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O’Hara and Sam Mewis, among others.
“This fight is so much bigger than ourselves and the Women’s National Team,” said Rapinoe. “We’re doing ...
Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine are behind Lfg, which chronicles the class-action, gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation filed three months before the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which was won by the U.S. team. Lfg will feature interviews with players Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O’Hara and Sam Mewis, among others.
“This fight is so much bigger than ourselves and the Women’s National Team,” said Rapinoe. “We’re doing ...
For its centerpiece commercial in the build-up to the 2019 Women’s World Cup, which kicks off June 7, Fox Sports knew it had to shoot to score.
The spot, titled “All Eyes On Us,” poses the question which soccer fans around the world will be asking: can anybody challenge the U.S. team, the undisputed queens of the international women’s soccer stage?
“Take your best shot. Just remember, you come at the queen, you best not miss,” says actress Carrie Coon, who narrates the spot.
The result is a fast, furious, immersive commercial. Robert Gottlieb, executive vice president and head of marketing at Fox Sports, says that also describes what it was like to shoot.
“Becky Sauerbrunn, who at the end of the commercial tackles the French player and goes flying, did take after take of that tackle. Don’t tell the coach of this, she’d lose her mind,...
The spot, titled “All Eyes On Us,” poses the question which soccer fans around the world will be asking: can anybody challenge the U.S. team, the undisputed queens of the international women’s soccer stage?
“Take your best shot. Just remember, you come at the queen, you best not miss,” says actress Carrie Coon, who narrates the spot.
The result is a fast, furious, immersive commercial. Robert Gottlieb, executive vice president and head of marketing at Fox Sports, says that also describes what it was like to shoot.
“Becky Sauerbrunn, who at the end of the commercial tackles the French player and goes flying, did take after take of that tackle. Don’t tell the coach of this, she’d lose her mind,...
- 5/8/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Although soccer star Megan Rapinoe is slower on the soccer field after tearing her Acl, the midfielder hasn't lost any momentum. Just one year after her injury at a training session in Hawaii, the 31-year-old tells People that it "means the world to me" to be a part of U.S. women's soccer team." "It's always an honor to make the team and even to be considered for such a huge tournament," she says. "If there's one thing this team doesn't lack, it's competitiveness and a desire to win. No matter if we come off a win or come off a loss,...
- 8/9/2016
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
Although soccer star Megan Rapinoe is slower on the soccer field after tearing her Acl, the midfielder hasn't lost any momentum. Just one year after her injury at a training session in Hawaii, the 31-year-old tells People that it "means the world to me" to be a part of U.S. women's soccer team." "It's always an honor to make the team and even to be considered for such a huge tournament," she says. "If there's one thing this team doesn't lack, it's competitiveness and a desire to win. No matter if we come off a win or come off a loss,...
- 8/9/2016
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
With three World Cup championships and four Olympic gold-medal wins under their belts, the U.S. women could make history again, becoming the first country ever to win Olympic gold while holding the title of world champions, which the U.S. claimed by winning the 2015 World Cup. Although the Opening Ceremony isn't happening until Friday, Olympic play has already kicked off - literally - this week in Rio, after the U.S. women defeated New Zealand 2-0 Wednesday night as the crowd booed goalie Hope Solo. Looking for a crash course in U.S. women's soccer now that play is underway?...
- 8/4/2016
- by Kurt Pitzer
- PEOPLE.com
Five superstars from the Women's World Cup championship team have filed a federal labor complaint against U.S. Soccer, claiming they're paid just 40 percent as much as the men's team players - despite generating tens of millions more in revenue. Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Becky Sauerbrunn, Megan Rapinoe and Hope Solo filed the paperwork on Thursday on behalf of the entire U.S. Women's National Team, the New York Times reports. According to recent budget figures from U.S. Soccer, the women earn just 40 percent of the wages of the athletes on the men's team, their attorney Jeffrey Kessler told the Times.
- 3/31/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
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