A report issued Monday by FIFA and FIFPRO, the global union for soccer players, found that 1 in 5 players at this year’s World Cup were subjected to online abuse, with the U.S. national team the most targeted squad at the tournament. Two players, understood to be the United States’ Megan Rapinoe and Argentina’s Yamila Rodríguez, were targeted more than any others.
More than 20 percent of the abuse was homophobic and more than 15 percent was sexual in nature, the report found. The female players were 28.5 percent more likely to be subjected to abuse than male players at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Read More
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