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The captain of the US soccer team, Megan Rapinoe , does not go unnoticed wherever she goes, a leading star who becomes a benchmark on and off the pitch. This was recognized yesterday at the award ceremony of the FIFA 'The Best 2019' awards , where he won the award for the best player of the year and gave a whole lesson in favor of women's equality in the world of football and of sport in general.

As he does in each game, when he won his Megan prize, he managed to get people who saw it from their seats with a forceful speech in favor of women's sport and women 's empowerment , in which he especially remembered "so many players from the community LGBTIQ who fight every day not only to practice the sport they love, but to fight homophobia. "

In this sense, he pointed out to the footballers Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly as the models that inspire her not only for her work, but for "talking about the disgusting racism" they have faced. And he also recalled "the young Iranian who set herself on fire because she was not allowed to go to a game." "We need a real change," said Megan, "if everyone were equally upset about the lack of equal pay or lack of support for women's sports and not just women, that would be a maximum inspiration."

The player, who thanked her family, her girlfriend and her teammates for all the support received, said that this has been an "incredible year for women's football" and took the opportunity to claim the involvement of the authorities and personalities present that night at the event: "We have a great opportunity as professional soccer players , we have financial success and in other ways, a huge visibility, we have a unique opportunity that does not have the rest of sports and is to use this beautiful sport to change really the world . It's what I ask everyone, I hope they do something about it with all the power in this room, "he claimed.

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