Plagued by alcohol problems, Hope Solo will wait before joining the Hall of Fame, Pantheon of the best players in the United States. The former international goalkeeper, legend of the American selection with 202 selections, was to receive this honor next month. But she herself asked that he be pushed back, after having integrated a hospital treatment to treat his addiction, which earned him some trouble with the justice in recent years, including an arrest for drunk driving in early April.
While driving with her two-year-old twins, Solo passed out in the driver’s seat for over an hour with the engine running. She is also being prosecuted for child abuse and rebellion against an agent, in a trial that is expected to take place at the end of June. Previously, she had already been arrested for domestic violence, after hitting members of her family during a family meal in 2014, but the case was dismissed. In 2015, she was also arrested for being drunk with her husband, NFL player Jerramy Stevens.
The Hall of Fame has agreed
“I have contacted the Hall of Fame and respectfully requested a postponement of my induction ceremony to 2023, the player wrote on her social networks on Friday. I will voluntarily enter an alcoholism treatment program in order to solve my problems. Right now, I am devoting all my energy and attention to my health, my healing, and my family. I want to thank the Hall of Fame for their support. »
Created in 1979, the National Soccer Hall of Fame aims to reward players who have made soccer shine across the Atlantic. During her career, Solo won a world championship title and two Olympic gold medals.
Aged 40, the American, double Olympic champion, had a short experience in Lyon where she only played four games. in 2005.
In his highly successful autobiography, whose title is a play on words: Solo, a Memoir of Hope, the American star evoked his difficult childhood. Conceived during a conjugal visit in prison, she grew up in a very disadvantaged family. Alcoholic mother, violent older brother, she was kidnapped at the age of 7 by her father who introduced her to football. In a river interview with ESPN, she will explain: “Football was what I clung to. The problem is that I kept expecting football to get me through the bad times, but it wasn’t as easy as when I was a kid. This difficult past largely explains the alcoholism problems that currently plague her.