Megan Rapinoe

For me, you know, being...

Being a part of the last two years on the local broadcasts and, you know, like for these couple of years, and I watched Jess Fischlach years before with, you know, Rapinoe and Little and like I watched her in the midfield.

I was just always so impressed, so impressed watching her play and then getting to watch her more frequently over the last few years.

You know, I don't want to, you know, bring up Cascadia Rivals, but, you know, another player that I watched the entire arc was Christine Sinclair.

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the Ballon d'Or is in terms of the pomp and the ceremony who is there it is the good it's the great everyone shows up like you don't miss a Ballon d'Or if you've been nominated and I think And commercially speaking, like the Ballon d'Or has so much room to grow in the women's game.

And I think we'll look back and think, oh, yeah, Rapinoe won it in 2019 and the Hegerberg won it in 2018.

And I think they those awards will gain more prestige as the award gets more kind of value and worth and respect from the women's community.

And last thing I will add is it's just interesting, like, Alexis Peter's reputation.

Puteas was the favourite for the Women's Award.

Beyond the fact that she played for Barcelona and won the Champions League, Do you think there's any other reason why she won this award? Or is that the clearest example? I think that maybe you've touched on it as well.

Is brand Alexia crucial to winning this award? Or brand whoever, brand Bonmati, if we go deeper, brand Rapinoe, brand Hegerberg.

Is that what we're talking about when we say, what is the point of the Ballon d'Or? How do you win a Ballon d'Or? You have to be a brand.

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What's the question? Ask Enos if Megan Rapinoe ever responded—Rapinoe ever responded to his $5 million soccer challenge.

What was—I'm unfamiliar with

that.

So what were you saying is so good, Joan?

Always good of you to catch me when I walk away.

OK, so what happened was in her she's got Megan Rapinoe has a podcast and she, of course, criticized Ennis Cantor freedom, calling him a bad faith actor for wanting to play as a woman in the WNBA and called him an absolute grift.

So what he did on Fox News at night, he fired back by calling her career washed up and challenging her to a one-on-one soccer match, offering to donate $5 million to any charity of her choice if she can beat him.

Go ahead, Joan.

So after you declared your eligibility for the WNBA draft, women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe was so annoyed.

She called you a bad faith actor.

She said you were an absolute grift.

logic behind this thinking.

Oh, I'm going to add, by the way, USA, Megan Rapinoe.

And Norway, Ada Hegerberg.

I mean, I did thankfully clarify it was the men's Ballon d'Or.