Solo has two-year-old twins with her husband, former NFL player Jerramy Stevens.
On Friday afternoon, solo tweeted out a statement from her attorney, Rich Nichols.
“On counsel’s advice, Hope is unable to speak about this situation, but she wants everyone to know that her children are her life, that she was immediately released and is now home with her family, that the story is more sympathetic than the initial ones charges and that she looks forward to her opportunity to defend those charges,” the statement said.
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Solo scored 202 goals for the USA women between 2000 and 2016 before being thrown out of the team after a sad loss to Sweden in the quarter-finals of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Solo called the Swedish players “a bunch of cowards” for their defensive tactics during the game, which the Americans lost on penalties.
US Soccer said it terminated Solo’s contract in 2016 over a spate of incidents that went beyond “cowards” comment at the Olympics. During the 2007 Women’s World Cup, Solo was also removed from the national team after criticizing coach Greg Ryan’s decision to team up with Briana Scurry in goal for the semi-final match against Brazil. The Americans suffered a 4-0 loss and afterwards Solo said Ryan’s choice of Scurry “was the wrong decision”.
In 2015, US Soccer suspended Solo for 30 days after Stevens was arrested for driving a US team van while under the influence of alcohol (she was a passenger in the vehicle at the time). The year before, police in Kirkland, Washington, arrested Solo on domestic violence charges following an incident in which she allegedly assaulted her nephew and half-sister while intoxicated. After a long legal saga, Kirkland prosecutors dropped those charges in 2018, saying witnesses in the case did not want to attend a trial and it was unlikely that the circumstances of the incident would be repeated.
In recent years, Solo has provided World Cup commentary for the BBC and has been a fervent supporter of the US women’s quest for equal pay. She ran for the presidency of the United States Soccer Association in 2017 but received just 1.4 percent of the vote and finished a distant fifth place in the most recent ballot.