The United States Women’s National Team faces Colombia in their third match of the Rio Olympics on Tuesday night.
According to the US Soccer Twitter account, the USWNT have a new player for the match – USMNT striker Clint Dempsey!
Good luck to @ussoccer_wnt against Colombia at 6 p.m. ET tonight on NBCSN! #OneNationOneTeam pic.twitter.com/7YIAS3DZqo
— U.S. Soccer Men's National Team (@USMNT) August 9, 2016
Oh, alright. That makes sense.
In case you’re curious if this is in the spirit of the “one nation, one team” mantra, US Soccer also slipped half of the men’s team into the promo for the USWNT-New Zealand match last Wednesday. They didn’t tweet out an original graphic for the France match on Saturday.
Good luck to @ussoccer_wnt against New Zealand tonight! Tune in to @NBCSN at 6 p.m. ET to cheer on the #USWNT! pic.twitter.com/I7qu8jGXPU
— U.S. Soccer Men's National Team (@USMNT) August 3, 2016
And in case you’re curious, there were no women in the USMNT promo tweets during the Copa America. Also, the hashtag was only #OneNation and not #OneNationOneTeam.
Tonight, we come together as #OneNation.
Match Preview: https://t.co/cjyyF8K7vV pic.twitter.com/aTD4pMZhwC
— U.S. Soccer Men's National Team (@USMNT) June 21, 2016
Third-Place Game against No. 3 in the world? Tonight is another chance to prove ourselves: https://t.co/iSZzglirfG pic.twitter.com/0URADnH0jd
— U.S. Soccer Men's National Team (@USMNT) June 25, 2016
Here is the #USMNT Starting XI for #USAvCOL. #OneNation pic.twitter.com/ERD64SuPlj
— U.S. Soccer Men's National Team (@USMNT) June 25, 2016
Naturally, the internet isn’t too pleased with US Soccer.
@ChristenPress @clint_dempsey I look forward to the picture of Christen Press on the next tweet promoing a MNT game!
— TitleIXBabyEsq: NoRacists NoRapists NoNazis Dem (@Titleixbaby) August 9, 2016
It looks like even dempsey is confused why he’s in that photo
— RC Lations (@rclations) August 9, 2016
@ChristenPress @clint_dempsey first @Ashlyn_Harris gets a yellow during Copa now Dempsy is playing in Rio
— Julie (@worokia8) August 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/meggles63/status/763070957325983744
https://twitter.com/colwnt/status/763076077585477632
https://twitter.com/ZakkaryRyan/status/763070417338830848
@ChristenPress @clint_dempsey just have one more question. Does Clint get paid more then Christen for the picture?!
— cj 🌊🏳️🌈🇺🇦 (@cjrisa2) August 9, 2016
@ChristenPress @clint_dempsey The women can stand on their own quit embarrassing yourselves
— b (@bstatz) August 9, 2016
the only time a male US player will be associated with 3 stars 💁🏻💁🏻🇺🇸
— Kate (@katelar) August 9, 2016
I get it. There’s a separate account for the USWNT, and the US Soccer Twitter account bills itself as “U.S. Soccer’s official feed for the #USMNT”.
But it’s still a bad look, especially considering that the USWNT has been vastly more successful than the USMNT historically and that the USWNT is clashing with US Soccer over their inferior treatment to the men’s team.
Is it really too much to just let the USWNT stand alone on their own? Apparently so.
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