Former U.S. Women’s National Team forward Abby Wambach was arrested on Sunday morning on a DUI charge, according to multiple reports.
Wambach was allegedly driving under the influence when she ran a red light in downtown Portland, prompting a police officer to pull her over. The 35-year-old Wambach failed sobriety tests before being booked, and also did not pass a breathalyzer at the police station. She was released later on Sunday.
Wambach issued a statement addressing the arrest via her official Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/abbywambach/posts/10153433311587190
Wambach retired from soccer last year after helping the U.S. win its third World Cup crown. Her legendary 15-year career also includes being the all-time leader in goals scored and two Olympic gold medals.
These classy ladies never disappoint
Any more so than any other league?
Exactly like “any other league” except that “any other league” doesn’t go around acting like a self-righteous d-bag that turns out to be a bunch of low class drunks with entitlement issues.
If you actually believe your comments, you must know nothing about athletics in general, soccer specifically and/or are a misogynist. When it comes to misbehavior, men are way in the lead.
When it comes to misbehavior, men are way in the lead.
The conversation isn’t about the entire male gender or female gender.
Calling someone misogynist is directly forgiving the actions of the guilty by deflecting the blame. Far too many apologists exist in our society now days and apply different standards based on gender. That even applies to the judicial system which is vastly unfair to men vs women in sentencing and favoritism.
When Rob said “these” it appears he’s specifically referring to the WNT. While obviously hyperbolic, they (anyone associated with WNT) isn’t doing themselves favors by having Hope Solo attached to this and Wambach (perhaps on her own) coming out on national news outlets speaking about this very lawsuit.
…and if we’re talking about “these” in context to the Men’s and Women’s US program, men are not way in the lead. I don’t recall any recent men’s players being arrested for domestic violence of beating up family members, stealing (borrowing) a USSF van, and participating with driving drunk. If you actually believe otherwise you’re a part of the problem.
WNT …… leading the way in lawsuits and court appearances.
Right along with CJ Sapong, Josh Saunders, Charlie Davies, etc.
The long time starting goalie for MNT Josh Saunders, and man of 2 caps CJ Sapong.
when was charlie ever the subject of criminal proceedings. He was the victim of drunk driver. In France, it was his teammate who was speeding (and not under the influence). He has never been accused of Domestic assault.
I guess you missed the news about Wambach. She retired and is no longer on the national team.
Maybe she needs to be fired
Wow must be a slow news day. Move on…
From a perception standpoint, having Hope Solo attached to that lawsuit and Abby Wambach indirectly makes the entire program look pretty trashy.
Especially with her recent comments against calling dual-nationals “experiments”. Perhaps USSF needs to experiment with removing the garbage from its program permanently…spoiler alert: none of the trash is dual-nationals.
Yeah, I think you honestly have people starting to turn against them at this point. If they want to make a case that they deserve a bigger cut of what they bring in then fine. However this argument that we win while the guys just show up isn’t helping them get any support.
Jack, it doesn’t help that they have writers/bloggers doing this for them as well: https://twitter.com/WoSoWeekly/status/716722683287900165
No doubt, you have a lot of people who knew nothing about the landscape of the sport a week ago, writing articles for Huffington post every day this week.
Jack, it doesn’t help that they have writers/bloggers doing this for them as well:
It doesn’t stop there. We have white knights and SJW’s jumping into the fray with little regard for facts or reason.
My perspective is that a lot of irrelevant things are being raised. First, she is retired, so what does it matter? How long should an athlete’s behavior be held to public scrutiny after they stop playing? If it is less than a felony, I think it should be as soon as they retire. As for the Bedoya tweets, I think Abby opened herself up with her criticisms of the men’s national team, because it’s something she’s not qualified to comment on and the situation with men’s and women’s teams is so completely different. As for the lawsuit, the issue is pay equity and this has nothing to do with the lawsuit and neither does Hope Solo’s or any other team members behavior off the field. Any half way decent judge would rule anything said about that is irrelevant to the lawsuit and throw it out.
My perspective is that a lot of irrelevant things are being raised. First, she is retired, so what does it matter? How long should an athlete’s behavior be held to public scrutiny after they stop playing?
Abby was just on Good Morning America (via telephone) and ESPN (via telephone) speaking about the lawsuit, issues and bringing up the comparison to the Men’s success vs the Women’s success just days ago.
That’s not indicative of someone fading into obscurity and anonymity. She’s also very much putting herself in the middle of this very conversation. She can’t have it both ways – so let’s not be ridiculous.
The issue is equity. Solo should really be quiet because she has been given a lot more beaks that a typical male soccer player who had multiple charges of domestic assault, alcohol abuse and DUI. She definitely would not be a spokesman let alone still on the team.
Bedoya going with “must’ve been a foreign American player’s fault…….”
Jozy following it up with : “should’ve used one of the team vans. Lol”
Wow. I originally thought you were just being satirical. I had no idea these were actual tweets from these two.
haha yeah people got all upset about it,
fairly un-witty. Got to be better if you are going to take pot shots, Ale tweeting like he played in Guatemala
fairly un-witty. Got to be better if you are going to take pot shots, Ale tweeting like he played in Guatemala
I’m not a fan of people taking shots at another individual when they’re done. However, his performance on the pitch has nothing to do with these series of tweets no more than Wambach winning the World Cup has anything to do with her driving drunk.
Bedoya did follow-up that tweet with some back and forth with fans and journalists. I absolutely agreed with these two tweets:
Bedoya: And if you can dish out criticism, like make xenophobic comments, than I’m sure you can take criticism also when you mess up.
Bedoya: Just FYI, someone born outside of the USA to parents who serve the American military are Americans.
yes, I fully understand the aspects of the situation and the referenced statements, and the phrasing of the tweet was bad, im sorry, it just wasnt a very strong effort, which he himself admits when he has to explain the dig and context in later tweets. Its a poor pot shot
Old School: “However, his performance on the pitch has nothing to do with these series of tweets no more than Wambach winning the World Cup has anything to do with her driving drunk.”
Wtf? Haha. How did you fail to understand that one? It was pretty straight forward from Mouf, basically saying that Bedoya’s attempt at a clever tweet was just as bad as his performance against Guatemala. You are on a roll. Keep it up.
Est thing Jozy has done in months!
Jozy just scored last week off the bench. Eat your words!
Abby to Arresting Officer: “Forget me”
God, I love the deschutes brewery. It’s hard not to leave that place without being a little tipsy, the way they serve those variety sixers on a wooden skillet.
Not sure if that was sarcasm or not, but agreed deschutes is great. Could go for a red chair right now.
Very bad. I need my USNT striker with a scoring rate of .72 to be considered good in my book. She needs to do some self reflecting.
Are you deliberately commenting in the style of Donald Trump Tweets?
“Abby Wamback [sic] pulled over for DUI. Very shameful. America deserves better”
lol your perception is your choice. Cheers mate
Don’t go there, Jamie. Believe me — it’s futile.
ABBY WAMBACH………L……..O………L……….