Hope Solo on Piers Morgan Tonight: fiesty, tired, wanting rest

Posted on Aug 15 2012 - 9:30am by Zennie Abraham
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Hope Solo, the best female soccer goalkeeper in the World, appeared on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight on Tuesday night, and came off as what she said she was: fiesty, tired, and wanting rest.

This blogger loves Hope Solo, but in watching her on Piers Morgan, I started to revisit that idea I expressed to Hope via Twitter last year: she tends to focus on anything negative someone says or tweets about her. I can think of that as the only reason for Hope’s comments to piers that the media’s always looking for something negative to say about her. That’s not true.

But I think Hope’s still smarting about the whole Brandi Chastain deal:

I’ve said that one thing I’ve learned as I turned 50 is that part of what people think about you is what you think they think about you, and on that I’ve been wrong 50 percent of the time. Since it’s a coin flip, it means you’re going to be wrong half the time, and you don’t know which half, so don’t stress about it. Hoep’s still stressing about it.

Maybe there’s a part of Hope that’s not happy unless she has a struggle.

Something to ponder. Stay tuned.

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  • rob

    You are right about Hope.  She won’t bother replying to the thousands of good tweets, but then she enters into a prolonged discussion with the one tweeter who doesn’t like her. She doesn’t want to give her energy to her fans she would rather spend it on random haters. But I guess recently she does not engage the haters anymore – she is probably learning.

    Despite her outer show of confidence Hope seems to have some degree of vulnerability which makes her want everyone to like her – I suppose most of us have some degree of this, but Hope’s sensitivity is a bit much, and is something you don’t need as a high profile athlete – since criticisms will come your way whether you like it or not.

    You mention Piers Morgan. I happened to see that interview, again she was making a big deal out of the haters. Hope was convinced that she has a bad rap. Piers was trying to tell her that most of the stuff that he had read about her was actually good, – but she wasn’t having any of it, and kept emphasizing the negative journalism.

     I think that although Hope is confident, she also has traces of low self-esteem,- which is why she finds it harder to accept compliments and easier to latch onto negative things. I Guess part of this low self-esteem may be partly to do with the terrible things she has experienced which she mentions in her memoir.
    At the end of the day, she is still growing as a person, – as she said recently she used to only care about winning, but now she believes that “It’s all about the journey” . I think she will continue to blossom as a person.