As rigidity between NFL gamers and flag soccer gamers mounts forward of flag soccer’s debut on the 2028 Summer season Olympics in Los Angeles, former U.S. girls’s nationwide group soccer star Megan Rapinoe added gasoline to the dispute.
Rapinoe made it clear throughout the “A Touch More” podcast with Sue Chicken there may be one former NFL participant she believes deserves a spot on America’s roster — former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers throughout a sport in opposition to the Miami Dolphins Nov. 27, 2016, at Onerous Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. (Ron Elkman/Sports activities Imagery/Getty Photographs)
“Oh God, he would be so good in flag football. I mean he would be so good in the NFL, let’s just be clear about that. He is still being blackballed from the NFL right now,” Rapinoe stated. “I think it would be awesome.
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“I might like to see Colin have the ability to signify America in an Olympics. I believe that will be an unbelievably particular second.
“He’s my flag bearer. I think that would be really incredible to have that representation of America also be front and center at an Olympics. That would be really cool.”
Megan Rapinoe of the USA traces up earlier than a girls’s soccer Group G match in opposition to Australia throughout the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games at Kashima Stadium July 27, 2021, in Kashima, Japan. (Hector Vivas/FIFA/FIFA by way of Getty Photographs)
Kaepernick, who final performed within the NFL in 2016, advised Sky Sports activities this month that “hopefully” he’ll be in LA competing for a gold medal with Staff USA.
“We’re gonna work on some things, see if we can make it in there, but would love to be out there,” he stated.
However Kaepernick could be competing in opposition to extra than simply the league’s finest.
With NFL gamers thinking about enjoying within the Olympics, flag soccer gamers have voiced considerations concerning the means of making an attempt out for a spot on the group.
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Darrell “Housh” Doucette, quarterback of the U.S. nationwide group, stated throughout a latest interview he hopes NFL gamers will undergo the identical course of to qualify for the group.
“I love the fact that they want to play and that they want to come out and compete. But at the end of the day, we want the same process that we’ve been having to play. We have to try out, and so do they. I don’t want it to be they’re entitled because of their names to be able to just automatically be on the team, and that’s what is sounds like from the flag football world.”
Quarterback Darrell Doucette (7) prepares handy the ball to broad receiver Derius Davis (4) throughout the American Flag Soccer League Final Last July 19, 2018, at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston. (Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photographs)
Doucette argued that the transition from sort out soccer to flag soccer isn’t so simple as some might counsel.
“I don’t think they have the time to actually learn this game and be as successful as we have over this period of time,” he added.
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