Social justice warrior Megan Rapinoe below fireplace for saying Virgil van Dijk ought to win participant of the yr ‘only for how cute he’s’

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US girls’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe has been accused of hypocrisy after stating Virgil van Dijk ought to win the FIFA Greatest Males’s Participant award “only for how cute he’s.”

Rapinoe was named Greatest Ladies’s Participant on the glitzy awards bash in Milan on Monday night time, the place Liverpool defender van Dijk was within the operating for the lads’s accolade.

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The Dutchman finally missed out, being pipped to the award by Barcelona legend Lionel Messi – but when Rapinoe had had her approach, van Dijk would have cleaned up based mostly on seems alone.

When requested forward of the ceremony who she thought ought to win the lads’s title, Rapinoe replied: “Ooo, I believe Virgil, only for how cute he’s.”

Whereas possible mentioned in an try at a joke, the feedback had been rapidly picked up on-line as many – together with UK TV persona Piers Morgan – referred to as Rapinoe out for her supposed hypocrisy, given she is a loud campaigner for equality and social justice.

“After all, if Virgil mentioned this about Ms Rapinoe, she’d accuse him of being a sexist pig…..,” Morgan wrote in a tweet which has racked up virtually 40,000 likes.

One other particular person wrote: “Think about that Messi and Ronaldo mentioned Megan Rapinoe ought to win The Greatest FIFA Ladies’s Participant due to how cute she is… The streets of Milan will likely be full of feminists protesting for equality.”

After choosing up her participant of the yr award, World Cup winner Rapinoe, 34, used her acceptance speech to name for an finish to racism and homophobia, telling the nice and the nice of the soccer world: “We’ve a singular alternative to make use of this lovely recreation to vary the world for the higher. Do one thing. Do something.”

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