Why Copacino Fujikado Held a Sendoff for Megan Rapinoe

The final dance

On Oct. 5, Copacino Fujikado and OL Reign arrange a throne inside Tough and Tumble and filmed tributes to Rapinoe from followers of all ages—every donning pink wigs emulating Rapinoe’s trademark gameday hair shade. The identify of the occasion: “Celebrating the Hair-itage.”

The Royal Guard introduced a big banner with Rapinoe’s likeness, followers from so far as Mexico Metropolis, Eire and the U.Ok. made indicators in assist and Seattle DJ Chong the Nomad—who Copacino Fujikado labored with on campaigns for metropolis tourism group Go to Seattle—saved the occasion going. All of the whereas, followers shared tales each of Rapinoe’s profession and what she meant to them as an athlete, but in addition what she meant to them as people—particularly those that credited her for serving to them come out to family and friends.

“I had [Michael Jordan] as a child, and I had a giant poster of MJ on the wall and [Copacino Fujikado Group creative director] Andrew[Gall] had Ken Griffey Jr., however we all the time checked out these sports activities heroes as phenoms—performers on the court docket on the sector,” mentioned Copacino Fujikado govt artistic course Vince Soliven. “These youngsters get to look as much as these sports activities heroes not simply because they’re successful championships and awards … there’s a lot extra.”

Copacino Fujikado’s billboard tribute to Rapinoe by the West Seattle Bridge was borne out of comfort—with assist from its media crew—however will ultimately come down. The company famous that OL Reign nonetheless hasn’t launched lots of the video tributes to Rapinoe, opting to attend till after she’s performed the NWSL Championship match to launch them. To Copacino Fujikado’s Gall, it offers each the company and followers the chance proceed the outpouring of assist and hold Rapinoe recent in Seattle’s thoughts.

“Experiential generally is a actually heavy raise, since you’re attempting to get individuals to do your factor that they might not have anticipated to wish to be part of,” Gall mentioned. “Typically that may be actually laborious to tug what you need out of your on a regular basis those that aren’t used to being on digicam and may tense up and get nervous, however everybody had a cause to thank Megan and it was each one was totally different—and this viewers couldn’t wait to be part of this.”