Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe's 'One Life' Is Mostly A Call To Action
Rapinoe's book traces her own political awakening in the hopes that other people will follow in her footsteps and understand that they have an imperative to speak out about injustice in the world.
In many ways, Megan Rapinoe seems like the perfect athlete-memoirist for the moment. The star of the United States Women's National Soccer team was catapulted into the national spotlight during the team's 2019 World Cup Championship — both for her on-field play and her off-field political views.
She declared that if the team won, they would not be going to the Trump White House. And Rapinoe was the first white athlete to kneel in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick in his protest against police brutality and racial injustice. She was also the first member of the National Women's
