RAPINOE Megan

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Senior	2012	London, GBR
5	Senior	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

FIFA Women's World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Senior	2019	France
1	Senior	2015	Canada
2	Senior	2011	Germany

CONCACAF Women's Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Senior	2018	United States of America

Pinoe, Rapinho, Rapinohdinho (teamusa.org, 07 Jul 2019)

Music, football, spending time with family, travelling, fashion. (Facebook page, 15 Jan 2020)

Athlete

Political Science, Sociology - University of Portland, United States of America

Partner Sue Bird

English

OL Reign [Tacoma, WA, USA] since 2013

Vlatko Andonovski [national], MKD

Forward (thetimes.co.uk, 31 Dec 2019)

Right-footed (theplayerstribune.com, 16 Dec 2014)

Her partner Sue Bird has represented the United States of America in basketball, and won gold medals at four consecutive Olympic Games between 2004 and 2016. Her twin sister Rachael has represented the United States of America in football at U23 level. (wnba.com, 10 Oct 2019; bbc.co.uk, 04 Dec 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 24 Jan 2020)

2006 for United States of America Against Ireland, Friendly Match in San Diego, CA, United States of America (ussoccer.com, 17 Jul 2011)

She was unable to compete in a National Women's Soccer League [NWSL] match in August 2019 due to an Achilles injury. (frontrowsoccer.com, 16 Aug 2019)

She missed the semifinal match against England at the 2019 World Cup in France due to a hamstring strain. She returned to the team five days later to play in the final against the Netherlands. (bbc.co.uk, 03 Jul 2019; fifa.com, 07 Jul 2019)

A rib injury ruled her out of two friendly matches against Chile in August and September 2018. (starsandstripesfc.com, 27 Aug 2018)

In August 2017 she underwent left knee surgery, which kept her out of action for five weeks. (fourfourtwo.com, 01 Dec 2017)

In December 2015 she tore the anterior cruciate ligament [ACL] in her right knee while training with the national team in Honolulu, HI, United States of America. She underwent surgery, but recovered in time to be named in the national squad for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (ussoccer.com, 05 Dec 2015; redding.com, 30 Jul 2016)

In 2006 she tore the ACL in her left knee while playing for the University of Portland in United States of America. She underwent surgery and was out of action for a year. Shortly after returning she suffered the same injury during training and required another operation. (portlandpilots.com, 17 Sep 2011)

National Women's Soccer League [USA] (nwslsoccer.com, 15 Jan 2020)

She began playing football at age four. (ussoccer.com, 14 Jun 2015)

Her older brother Brian introduced her and her twin sister Rachael to the sport. "I idolised him. I wanted to do whatever he did." (ussoccer.com, 14 Jul 2015)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (cnn.com, 04 May 2020)

US writer and civil rights activist Audre Lorde, US basketball player Michael Jordan. (ussoccer.com, 02 Mar 2019; si.com, 09 Dec 2019)

She eats red gummy bear sweets on match days. (medium.com, 08 Dec 2017)

"Be your best you." (rapinoe.us, 03 Jan 2020)

In 2019 she was named Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of the Year. (si.com, 09 Dec 2019)

At the 2019 World Cup in France, she was presented with the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player and the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer. (fifa.com, 07 Jul 2019)

In 2019 she was named the International Federation of Football History and Statistics [IFFHS] World's Best Woman Playmaker, the Best FIFA Women's Player and received the Women's Ballon d'Or, which recognises the best female player of the year. Also in 2019, she was named in the IFFHS Women's World Team and the FIFPro World XI. (bbc.co.uk, 23 Sep 2019; iffhs.de, 28 Nov 2019; iffhs.de, 30 Nov 2019; fifa.com, 23 Sep 2019; bbc.co.uk, 02 Dec 2019)

In 2018 she received an ESPY award for Best Player in the National Women's Soccer League [NWSL]. She was also named in the NWSL Best XI for the 2018 season. (medium.com, 19 Jul 2018; nwslsoccer.com, 20 Sep 2018)

In 2015 she was named in the All-Star team for the World Cup in Canada. (mlssoccer.com, 17 Aug 2015)

In 2009 she was named in the Women's Professional Soccer [WPS] All-Star first team in the United States of America. (windycitymediagroup.com, 03 Jul 2012)

During her time at the University of Portland, she was named Soccer Times National Freshman of the Year and West Coast Conference [WCC] Freshman of the Year in 2006. In the same year, she was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America [NSCAA] All-America First Team, Soccer Buzz and Soccer America All-America Freshman First Teams, College Cup All-Tournament Team, and All-WCC First and Freshman Teams. In 2008 she was named WCC Player of the Year. (ussoccer.com, 17 Jul 2011; portlandpilots.com, 17 Sep 2011)