Nick Kyrgios and Piers Morgan tear into Megan Rapinoe over viral video clip

Nick Kyrgios has joined Piers Morgan in criticising girls’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe after a viral video resurfaced on social media. The USA winger and her team-mates have been despatched crashing out of the Women’s World Cup on Sunday after a penalty-shootout defeat to Sweden.

Rapinoe, 38, needed to make do with appearances from the bench at this 12 months’s match. But she was one of many sport’s largest names 4 years in the past, when she performed a starring function within the USA’s World Cup triumph.

The OL Reign star sparked controversy within the wake of the victory, nevertheless. Attending the ESPYS Awards in Los Angeles again in 2019, she was caught on video failing to acknowledge a fan.

Rapinoe signed the teenager’s soccer however did not make eye contact, and even seemed the opposite approach when handing it again.

At the time, Morgan referred to as her an ‘arrogant piece of work‘, and the Arsenal fan was as soon as once more riled up when the footage resurfaced this week. “Doesn’t even look at him,” he wrote on Twitter. “Diabolical arrogance.”

This time, former Wimbledon finalist Kyrgios waded in by quoting Morgan’s tweet and adding: “Hahahahahaha one thing me and Piers agree on.”

“I don’t miss the sport at all,” he stated. “I was almost dreading coming back a little bit. But it’s my job. The thing about tennis is the tour is so vigorous.

“There are tournaments week in and week out, you type of don’t have time to mirror on something you’ve performed. I’ve had a lot time to take a seat again and be compelled to have a look at all the things I did final 12 months. I wished to do extra.”