The National Women’s Soccer League returned to play Saturday. The first league — team sport — to do so since the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
This also marked the first playing of the national anthem before a game of a team sport. And with the call for social justice and equality reform, the national anthem figured to be a memorable moment.
It was as many members of the teams kneeled during the playing of the song before the match in Utah between the North Carolina Courage and Portland Thorns.
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