U.S. Ladies’s Soccer Group Principally Silent Throughout Nationwide Anthem at World Cup

The U.S. Ladies’s Soccer crew wasn’t feelin very patriotic throughout their World Cup opener — and it confirmed on their faces … with principally closed mouths throughout the Nationwide Anthem.

The U.S.’s debut recreation in opposition to Vietnam went down Friday in New Zealand, and lots of people could not assist however discover that many of the American gamers had been selecting to not sing alongside to “The Star-Spangled Banner” whereas the famed music performed earlier than kickoff.

It was awkward — the digital camera pans throughout the whole row … and nearly everybody, apart from just a few stray gamers, had their mouths shut. Some even had their arms behind their again.

The starters who opted to skip the Nat’l Anthem included … Alex Morgan, Andi Sullivan, Sophia Smith, Naomi Girma, Emily Fox, Trinity Rodman and Crystal Dunn, amongst others. A pair had been notably mouthing the phrases … Alyssa Naeher and Lindsey Horan.

To make issues worse … the Vietnamese gamers had been just about all singing their nationwide anthem, loudly/proudly it appears — with fingers over hearts. Ditto for almost each different worldwide crew we are able to see — FOX is chopping all of the nationwide anthems on their social web page.

On its face, it appears like each different nation — apart from the U.S. — is belting out their tunes.

It stays to be seen if the U.S. goes to do that each time they play one other crew — the Nationwide Anthem will, in reality, be performed earlier than every of their matches … and so, it looks like they’re making an announcement — which has, little question, pissed off some alongside political strains.