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[quote=Anonymous]Vanity fair article, Rodman talking about the team:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trinity-rodman-2024-paris-olympics-world-cup

More recently, the USWNT has confronted ideological tension within its own camp. Korbin Albert, a 20-year-old midfielder and one of the team’s promising new faces, came under fire in April after sharing anti-LGBTQ+ content on TikTok, earning a public reprimand from USWNT veterans. Lindsey Horan, the team’s captain, called it a “disappointing situation,” while Morgan said they remained committed to “a safe and respectful space, especially as allies and members of the LGBTQ+ community.”

“We’ve worked extremely hard to uphold the integrity of this national team through all of the generations, and we are extremely, extremely sad that this standard was not upheld,” Horan said at the time.

Albert publicly apologized, but many US fans have not been so forgiving. When she took the field in the first match against South Korea this month, Albert drew boos from the crowd in Colorado. She’s also drawn rebukes online.

“I like to say social media is a great place, but a dangerous place,” Rodman says. “Having strong opinions is difficult, especially when you are looked at a lot and you have a platform to do so. Obviously getting booed is horrible, but there’s people that have their opinions and have their beliefs and they’re not always going to match up with those. Even if you’re in the spotlight, it doesn’t mean you believe the same things as everybody else. But yeah, for us, she’s on the US women’s national team and we’re going to be her teammates and support her. When she comes on the field, she’s just like everybody else wearing that number and playing for our country, and she’s working her butt off to do so.”

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