Hope Solo

Hope Solo fascinates me precisely because she refused to be a quiet goalkeeper. A World Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist out of the University of Washington, she carried a level of confidence and outspokenness that the sport rarely tolerates from women. I find her career a study in the cost of conviction: brilliant between the posts, divisive everywhere else. Goalkeeping is a thankless, isolating job, yet she made it the loudest position on the pitch. Whatever one thinks of the controversies, I respect an athlete who played and spoke entirely on her own terms, and who helped push women's soccer into the cultural spotlight.

Name (English)

Hope Solo

Name (Japanese)

ホープ・ソロ

Reading

ほーぷ・そろ

Born

July 30, 1981 (age 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

Origin

Richland, Washington, United States

Height

175 cm

Occupation

association football player / model

High school

Richland High School

University

University of Washington

• Official sitehttp://hopesolo.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hopesolo/
• Xhttps://x.com/hopesolo
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope%20Solo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229619

Tags

• Washington
• association football player
• model

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.