One Life
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Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion, has become a galvanizing force for social change; here, she urges all of us to take up the mantle, with actions big and small, to continue the fight for justice and...
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Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion, has become a galvanizing force for social change; here, she urges all of us to take up the mantle, with actions big and small, to continue the fight for justice and equalityRaised in a conservative small town in Northern California, the youngest of six, Megan Rapinoe was four years old when she kicked her first soccer ball. Her parents encouraged her love for the game, but taught her that winning was much less important than how she lived her life. From childhood on, Rapinoe always did what she could to stand up for what was right-even if it meant going up against people who disagreed.
In One Life, Rapinoe reflects on the choices she has made, her victories and her failures, and embarks on a thoughtful and candid discussion of her personal journey into social justice. Recognizing the power she had to bring attention to critical issues, in 2016 she took a knee during the national anthem in solidarity with former NFL player Colin Kaepernick to protest racial injustice and police brutality-the first high-profile white athlete to do so. The backlash was immediate, but it couldn't compare to the overwhelming support. Rapinoe becaame a force of change, both on and off the field.
Deeply personal and inspiring, One Life reveals that real, concrete change lies within all of us, and asks: If we all have the same resource-this one precious life, made up of the decisions we make every day-what are you going to do?
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STAND UPI was on the team bus driving through the suburbs of Chicago when I picked up a call from my agent. It was September 2016, and my team, FC Seattle Reign, had just played the Chicago Red Stars in one of the last games of the season. That wasn t why my agent was calling. Dan Levy had represented me for almost ten years and we d been through a few things together. Five years earlier, he d been a big part of the discussion around my decision to come out as the first, and for a long time practically the only, gay player on the US Women s National Team which is hilarious given the number of gays on the team and he d seen me through injuries and disappointments without losing his cool. Now he sounded concerned. This is blowing up, he said. The actual game that night had been nothing special. Chicago, like New York and Los Angeles, isn t a soccer town, for reasons no one can quite put their finger on. You might get people out for a national team game, but no way are they turning up on a random Sunday night in September for a league match. We d played to a small crowd of three thousand people and the score had been a lackluster 2 2. But at the press conference afterward, the first question out of the gate had little to do with the game itself: Had I intended to kneel during the national anthem, and if so, why?
I had anticipated being asked this question, of course. The decision to kneel wasn t one I d made lightly. At the same time, I hadn t given much thought to how it might be received. In trivial contexts, I can be impulsive the kind of person who dyes their hair pink the night before a huge tournament, for example but it wasn t that. If I didn t rehearse outcomes before kneeling, it s because kneeling, to me, felt more like an imperative than a choice. Any risk assessment I did wasn t premised on how my actions might land, but on calculating the risk huge, societal, unignorable, in my view of doing nothing.
Still, I wasn t expecting
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much of a backlash. Compared to football or baseball, soccer has a relatively low profile in this country, particularly at the league level. The nine teams in the National Women s Soccer League are very competitive, but they don t exactly dominate the sports pages. In the fall of 2016, even the national team one of the most successful sports teams of all time wasn t riding especially high. A month earlier, we d been eliminated from of the Rio Olympics in the quarterfinals, our worst result in an international tournament for years. I was personally off form, in the final stages of recovering from a knee injury. And the soccer season was about to end. I was also a woman athlete. At thirty-one, I was a veteran of two World Cups and two Olympic Games, with a history of mouthing off at least as long as my playing record. Still, it seemed fair to assume that when it came to talking about politics, my voice would carry less weight than a man s. Earlier that year, when members of three WNBA basketball teams had worn T-shirts emblazoned with black lives matter, it had triggered a flurry of interest before dying down. By contrast, when Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the 49ers, had knelt before a game in San Diego a week earlier, the response had been swift and engulfing.
I had seen the footage of Colin kneeling. It was impossible to avoid. We were in an election year, and all summer the news had been dominated by stories of unarmed black Americans dying in police custody. Black Lives Matter had become increasingly visible. For a while, you couldn t open The New York Times without reading about the disparity between the way black and white Americans were treated by the criminal justice system and our society a
I had seen the footage of Colin kneeling. It was impossible to avoid. We were in an election year, and all summer the news had been dominated by stories of unarmed black Americans dying in police custody. Black Lives Matter had become increasingly visible. For a while, you couldn t open The New York Times without reading about the disparity between the way black and white Americans were treated by the criminal justice system and our society a
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Autoren-Porträt von Megan Rapinoe, Emma Brockes
Megan Rapinoe with Emma Brockes
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Megan Rapinoe , Emma Brockes
- 2021, 240 Seiten, Maße: 13,7 x 21,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 1984881183
- ISBN-13: 9781984881182
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.08.2021
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Englisch
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One Life makes it clear that Rapinoe s greatest accomplishments may ultimately come away from the soccer pitch. She s a new kind of American hero. San Francisco ChronicleOne Life will inspire readers to go out and leave their mark on the world no matter how scary it is or how uncomfortable they may feel in the process. PopSugar
Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is synonymous to the feeling we got when finishing this book: heart full, arms wide and ready to take up space in this world. USA Today
An invigorating read that s incredibly hard to put down. . . . One Life is an outstanding narrative of an exemplary life. Megan Rapinoe s many accomplishments on the pitch are celebrated but what takes center stage is how she uses those moments to further the causes she believes in. It s that combination of transcendent athletic accomplishment and iconoclastic social justice activism that makes Rapinoe unique as an athlete and now as an author. Out Sports
Megan Rapinoe isn t breaking the glass ceiling she is shattering it, all while sharing her stage with those on the margins. She is a real-life superhero, a coconspirator to the oppressed, who is as tenacious off the field as she is on the field. This is an inspiring moment for a powerful force in social justice. Patrisse Khan-Cullors, cofounder of Black Lives Matter; New York Times bestselling coauthor of When They Call You a Terrorist; joint recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize
Megan Rapinoe s One Life is an incredible self-portrait of a new way to be public and female: to be able to enjoy and celebrate how extraordinary one is while also being attuned to the needs of others. It s a manifesto of how to have a beating heart while also being a beast on the field. Natalie Portman, Academy Award winner; co-owner of Angel City
Uplifting. . . . A compelling
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testimony for equality in sports with a resounding message of hope. Booklist, starred review
Rapinoe's passion for inclusion and equality shines throughout this appealing book, and her hard-won take on the intersection of sports and activism isn't to be missed. Publishers Weekly
An inspiring memoir that will thrill soccer fans as well as social justice activists. Kirkus
Essential for all readers. Rapinoe shares much wisdom throughout, and her words are a call for action to continue to fight societal inequalities. Library Journal
Rapinoe's passion for inclusion and equality shines throughout this appealing book, and her hard-won take on the intersection of sports and activism isn't to be missed. Publishers Weekly
An inspiring memoir that will thrill soccer fans as well as social justice activists. Kirkus
Essential for all readers. Rapinoe shares much wisdom throughout, and her words are a call for action to continue to fight societal inequalities. Library Journal
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