Megan Rapinoe caught plenty of heat following the US Women’s National Team’s World Cup debacle earlier this month, particularly the fallout of her missed penalty kick in an elimination loss to Sweden — criticism she believes is “absurd and outrageous”.
The 38-year-old Rapinoe addressed the brutal miss in a new interview with The Atlantic, after which she was seen staring down at the pitch, laughing in apparent disbelief after her ball sailed over the net, a moment that ignited criticism from her detractors.
“I’ve been lucky not to miss a lot in actual competition, but eventually, that can happen. But I love taking them. I would take them all the time. I would take that one again. I would pick me to take them,” Rapinoe said.
“For a long time, I have thought about missing one in a really big moment. What are you going to do? The only other thing you could do is to not…