On Saturday, at U.S. Soccer’s annual general meeting, the federation unveiled a new policy requiring all players to stand for national anthems. This comes in the wake of a protest by United States women’s national team player Megan Rapinoe, who kneeled during the anthem in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick and other athletes to protest systemic injustice in America.
U.S. Soccer institutes policy requiring players to ‘stand respectfully during the playing of national anthems’
