Hope Solo is back in the good graces of American Soccer….and she’s talking!
After the goalie was benched for the World Cup’s semifinal match back in September against Brazil – this after not allowing a single goal in the tournament leading up to that point — and watching the U.S. lose to Brazil 4-0, crying on the bench and making a media spectacle about her benching….then subsequently being ejected by the team from the bronze medal ceremony and team meals, and the team flight home….Solo is back IN with U.S. soccer. Huh?
“I will not live with regrets,” Solo says. “Whether I could have done things differently or not, that was the state of mind I was in at the time. I felt I needed to say it at the time.”
Her father, Jeffrey, died on June 15, a week before an exhibition match in East Rutherford, N.J., against Brazil. Solo returned from the funeral in time for the game but didn’t play;
The World Cup instantly became her solace, her mission, her way of soothing the pain.
“It was my way of honoring his death, honoring his life,” says Solo, who scattered his ashes in the goal before every match in China. “It was all he ever wanted for me, and all I ever wanted for him. I’ve never been so focused and passionate about something in my whole life. It was the only thing that kept me together after he passed away.”
She is not asking for sympathy, only understanding. [link]
Frankly, if I were Solo I’d probably defect to Russian or do a spread for Penthouse. Actually, if I were her agent I’d recommend the latter and get this messy ordeal behind my client….yes, the 26 year-old and has plenty of soccer left in her…but that’s a messy game chock full of ACL tears and boo-boo’s for fair maidens such as Hope. Silk, lace, and the instructive cues of photographers named Rad would be the correct course of action for Miss Solo.
