Hope Solo is Attractive, a Great Goalie, and a Terrible Human Being.

Hope Solo has a terrible attitude and plenty of off the field problems.

She has repeatedly and publicly called out teammates and coaches. She also loves to insult opposing teams that beat her.

During the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, Solo openly criticized U.S. women's soccer coach Greg Ryan after she was benched and the U.S. lost its next match by four goals. Her teammates supported Ryan and had her removed from the team.

In 2012, Solo sent out a harsh tweet criticizing Olympic soccer commentator Brandi Chastain for her negative commentary during the 2012 London games, which of course was Chastain's job at the time. Solo said "Lay off commentating about defending and gking until you get more educated @brandichastain the game has changed from a decade ago."

She just called the Swedish team that defeated the US "cowards" for playing an effective defensive strategy with well timed counterattacks. But that's just some of the more public attitude issues. Her personal life and legal issues is pretty bad.

She is married to this guy, Jerramy Stevens.

These 2 had one heck of a time getting married.

On November 12, 2012, Stevens was arrested on investigation of assault following an altercation that left Solo injured. The following day, Stevens was released after a judge determined there was not enough evidence to hold him. The pair were wed the next day, November 13, 2012.

He has trouble with the law quite consistently, but Hope Solo always supports him.

In spring 1998, Stevens - a high school senior - was charged with felony assault, which led to three weeks in the Thurston County jail after testing positive for marijuana, which violated the terms of his home confinement. "The felony charge appeared to place his [University of Washington football] scholarship in jeopardy — but three UW coaches wrote the judge, saying the UW’s offer was still good."

In July 2000, Stevens was arrested and charged with rape. UW athletic director Barbara Hedges told news media that UW would investigate sexual battery charges; but the University did not. King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng’s office "agreed to give crucial police evidence — the victim and witness statements — to Stevens’ lawyers before the interview." This was directly contrary to standard police procedure, and the Seattle Police did not agree to release those statements. Despite DNA evidence, Maleng's office declined to prosecute.

On October 19, 2000, Stevens sideswiped Donald Preston's Dodge Daytona on I-5 after “driving like a maniac” and "using the HOV lane as a passing lane." He fled the scene without giving any information to Preston. The State Trooper who tracked him via the license plate on his red truck did not charge him with hit-and-run but instead cited him for "driving too fast for conditions."

On May 4, 2001, Stevens was cited for reckless driving and hit and run after crashing his pickup truck into a retirement home. The crash knocked a dresser onto a bed where a 92-year-old woman was sleeping.[38] Stevens first lied, saying he did not know who was driving his truck; he later pleaded guilty to hit-and-run and causing property damage and was given a suspended 90-day jail sentence, 240 hours of community service, and probation.

On April 3, 2003, Stevens was stopped by Medina, Washington police and was charged with reckless driving and driving while intoxicated. He pleaded guilty to reckless driving. For violating probation from the May 2001 incident, Stevens served five days in jail effective June 12, 2003 and was ordered to do 40 hours of community service. For the reckless driving charge, Stevens was sentenced to two days in jail, 25 hours of community service, and a $1,000 fine on June 23. The sentencing judge compared Stevens to Reggie Rogers, another star University of Washington football player who was convicted of DUI.

On March 13, 2007, 11 days after he became a free agent, Stevens was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona for suspicion of DUI after his blood alcohol content was measured at 0.204, more than twice the legal limit of .08 and considered "extreme DUI" in Arizona. On September 7, a jury found Stevens guilty. Although the crime carries a mandatory minimum of 30 days in jail, the judge gave Stevens 12 days, "suspending the other 18 because he was enrolled in the NFL’s substance-abuse program, the same program Stevens entered in 2003, after being stopped with two open champagne bottles in his car." And the NFL suspended him for one game.

On March 16, 2007, The Seattle Times reported that multiple complaints were raised against Stevens by other residents in his condominium complex. The complaints included vomit on their doors, used condoms on the back porch, loud parties at all hours of the night, and various noise complaints.

On October 23, 2010, Stevens was arrested and charged in Tampa with possession of marijuana. Stevens had been pulled over for playing loud music, when the officer smelled marijuana, and discovered 38 grams of it in his car. Stevens was sentenced to probation until October 2013 for the incident but returned to Hillsborough County, Florida jail on November 28, 2012 for violating probation.

On March 3, 2011, Stevens was arrested and charged with felony battery for punching two bouncers in a Tampa, Florida bar. According to his attorney, who denied the charges, after Stevens was released from jail, he was treated for "multiple broken ribs and extensive bruising to his body and face."

 On November 12, 2012, Stevens was arrested on investigation of assault following an altercation that left his fiancée, soccer star Hope Solo, injured, but a Kirkland, Washington judge dropped the case the following day for lack of evidence.[49] The pair were wed November 13, 2012, the day after the arrest.

On January 19, 2015, Stevens, 35, was arrested in Manhattan Beach, California for suspicion of DUI. As a result of this incident, Steven's wife Hope Solo was suspended for thirty days from the U.S. Soccer team for showing poor judgement in entering the car and arguing with the police.[44] In May, Stevens was sentenced to 30 days in jail and four years probation for driving a U.S. soccer team van while drunk. The judge also mandated a two-year outpatient alcohol program. Stevens had refused a blood or breathalyzer test; officers had to obtain a search warrant to draw a blood sample; his blood-alcohol concentration was at least 0.15%.

Hope Solo has legal issues herself.

On June 21, 2014, Solo was arrested and charged with two misdemeanor counts of assault in the fourth degree; one against her half-sister and the other against her nephew. She was booked under her married name of Hope Amelia Stevens. After pleading not guilty, she was released the following day. In August, her trial was scheduled for November 4, 2014, but this was later delayed until January 20, 2015.

On December 30, 2014, the judge ordered more depositions from the defendants and delayed a decision on whether charges against Solo would be dropped until January 6, 2015.

On January 13, 2015, the judge dismissed the charges against Solo based on a lack of cooperation from both alleged victims.

The charges were reinstated October 2015. On June 8, 2016, KING5 Seattle reported that the state appeals court denied a discretionary review to dismiss the reinstated domestic violence charges.

She was suspended from the US National team for only 30 days for this domestic violence incident. There was plenty of backlash about that but i won't get into that.

She also believes her on field play and contributions with the US team trump all the role model qualities that she lacks.

Her best quotes.

"I don't expect any of the media to be positive," Solo told CNN in 2012. "But I know that I'm doing wonderful things for the sport of soccer, and I know I'm doing amazing things for female athletes. So I can take it."

"I have an attitude. It's what I do. I'm edgy. I have an attitude."

"It was the wrong decision, and I think anybody that knows anything about the game knows that. There's no doubt in my mind I would have made those saves. And the fact of the matter is it's not 2004 anymore. It's not 2004. And it's 2007, and I think you have to live in the present. And you can't live by big names. You can't live in the past. It doesn't matter what somebody did in an Olympic gold medal game in the Olympics three years ago. Now is what matters, and that's what I think."

"I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory."

“You’re such a bitch, You’re scared of me because you know that if the handcuffs were off, I’d kick your ass.” Reportedly said during her arrest.

In response to the recent loss to Sweden.
"We had that style of play when Pia was our coach. I don't think they're going to go far in the tournament. I think it was very cowardly. But they won. They're moving on and we're going home."

Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Solo's partner on Dancing With the Stars, seems to have said it best.

"She's just a shitty person," Chmerkovskiy told hosts Theo Von and Matthew Cole Weiss. "You can have a shitty life growing up, you can have a tough upbringing, you can have history … but if you're just a bad person, there's no excuse for that."

The day is coming that we will all see Hope Solo as he does. Her playing days are numbered, her husband is an ex-NFLer who can't stay out of trouble. She drinks, has a history of violence, speaks before she thinks, with few other skills besides soccer, and apparently is not liked by people behind the scenes.

She does work with youths and such, and has attended charities and been outspoken for issues, but so do former felons of the NFL and other known pro athletes involved in domestic violence. Being a role model goes far beyond those events, which in Hope Solo's case are primarily in connection with the Women's US National soccer team.

I truly hate that young girls look up to this person as a role model. She is nothing of the sort. And I can't wait for her to no longer be in the spotlight.