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An orange hard court, two tennis courts with nets and a wooden table with many microphones on it: For Christians Press, this environment must have been like a fusion of childhood and the present. The US national football player, who faces the journalists' questions one day before the World Cup semi-final against England in a somewhat unusual setting, comes from a family of athletes whose father was also a footballer and mother was a tennis player.
"In the family," the striker once told Sports Illustrated magazine, "great value was placed on winning." As a result, their self-confidence was always dependent on the outcome. "When I won, I felt like a hero, I lost, I was just a loser," she explains in a video featuring the players of the US Womens Soccer Team.
Arrogant, overbearing, overbearing?
Success plays an extremely important role not only for Press but for the entire team. Three world championship titles, four Olympic champions, world number one ranking: the expectations, not only of the public but also of the players themselves, are extremely great – as well as the self-confidence of the team. "We have the best team in the world and the second-best team," said Ali Krieger after the second sovereign group victory over Chile, in which, with seven fresh players so to speak, a B-Eleven had started. That did not work out well everywhere. Arrogant, overbearing, overbearing – that's the reaction worldwide. "We are not arrogant, I think we are just self-confident," replies Press on Deutsche Welle's question.
Won fight for recognition
Confident, not arrogant: US star Christian Press (M.), here in the quarter-finals of the World Cup against France
"We have great respect for our opponents, our way of showing that we are preparing very intensively for them, always assuming that the next opponent is the best in the world." With this approach, the team – unlike Germany – has always been consistently successful.
And through the success of the team in the past decade has earned something other than titles and trophies, the footballers in other countries continue to be denied: recognition. The US women impressively use this appreciation to lead the way, not only on the grass but also outside.
"The US women have such a great platform, they are, like Alex Morgan, real stars," recognizes the English national player Lucy Bronze, one of the best footballers in the world, to the ‘ without envy. "They try to set topics and to point out big problems with the help of their media presence," said the defender.
For equal rights and against discrimination
Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Press and other US players publicly defend themselves against discrimination and are not shy about lobbying with the president. They fight for equal rights, even if they have to sue against their own association. Her success as an athlete on the pitch has also made her self-confident as a person – and that makes the team even stronger.
Also Christen Press has personally benefited from the social esteem in his own country. "Identifying oneself about success was very unhealthy for me," says Christen Press in the video of the US Womens Soccer Team. "I have learned to like myself as a person." Meanwhile, she passes on her experience of over 100 international matches, especially to the younger players.
"Self-esteem is something great, it's something that defines us as a US team and what we want to demonstrate with our achievements and pass on to our generations to come."
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