In the June 2014 incident, Solo was arrested on charges of domestic violence after allegedly assaulting her older half-sister, Teresa Obert, and Obert's 17-year-old son at their house. [ Hope Solo and the domestic violence case no one is talking about ] 
 
 The jail report obtained by Fairaru-Wada (read it here) reports that Solo was belligerent and intoxicated after her arrest on two counts of domestic violence early in the morning of June 21. The police were trying to book her into jail, but Solo was so combative that she had to be forced to the ground, prompting her to yell at one officer, "You're such a b----. Solo, perhaps the best women's soccer goalie in the world, had repeatedly hurled insults at the officers processing her arrest, suggesting that two jailers were having sex and calling another officer a "14-year-old boy." You’re scared of me because you know that if the handcuffs were off, I’d kick your [expletive].” She insinuated that two jailers were having sex and called an officer a “14-year-old boy.” According to Fainaru-Wada, “When asked to remove a necklace, an apparently drunk Solo told the officer that the piece of jewelry was worth more than he made in a year.” 
 
 On “GMA” last February. On ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” Mark Fainaru-Wada reports that police records, depositions and an interview with Teresa Obert, Solo’s half-sister and one of the alleged victims in the incident, are at odds with Solo’s comments on what happened on “Good Morning, America,” on Facebook and in a new ESPNW story. Solo has carefully selected the interviews she has given in the build-up to the World Cup, and attempted to paint herself as the "victim" in the June 2014 incident. Rather, Solo's case in Kirkland Municipal Court was dismissed by Judge Michael Lambo on procedural grounds, and prosecutors, in a rare move that required city administrator approval, have filed an appeal with the Superior Court of Washington. Prosecutors have filed a rare appeal with the Superior Court of Washington and are scheduled to file their argument by July 13. "Hope is incredibly lucky to be on this World Cup team," former national team star Brandi Chastain, who scored the winning penalty kick in the 1999 World Cup final, told USA TODAY Sports recently. "What I can tell you is that I'm in the best place in my life both on the field and off the field. "No, Hope's been fantastic," Ellis said at a news conference Sunday evening. She’s strong.” 
 
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 Solo declined to comment to ESPN and declined to address the incident when asked by reporters during Women’s World Cup media day recently, focusing instead on soccer. "I was a victim of domestic violence at the hands of my 17-year-old nephew, who is 6-foot-9, 280 pounds. I was struck over the head, and concussed pretty severely. It was a very scary night.” 
 
 Obert, for the first time, is speaking publicly about what happened; her son was not named by ESPN because he was a minor at the time of the incident. "I felt like I had just been kicked in the head," she says. "She should have been happy, but then, randomly, she goes on 'Good Morning America' and lies. I was very upset. It never had anything to do with size. She has tried to make him feel small his whole life. He's not aggressive. She's a trained athlete. I have great teammates behind me, a great coaching staff, and I’m just honestly really excited for my third World Cup.” 
 
 Her lawyer said in a statement to ESPN, mentioning a detail from the report in which the nephew alleged struck Solo with a broom handle: 
 
 “Police reports and other court documents clearly demonstrate that the alleged victims radically changed their stories on multiple occasions and twice refused to answer questions under oath, despite court orders. Had the case proceeded to trial and the witnesses been cross-examined under oath subject to the penalty of perjury, the defense would have proven that Teresa’s son, not Hope, was the true aggressor, and that Hope suffered a concussion as a result of her nephew’s unlawful conduct.” 
 
 The fight, according to documents and ESPN, began when Solo arrived at her Obert’s home after a disagreement with her husband, former NFL player Jerramy Stevens. "You would be surprised at how normal life is," Wambach said. In November 2012, police reported they found booze and traces of marijuana at Solo's house in Kirkland, Wash., when police arrived at a party the night before Solo's wedding to Stevens, a former NFL player. Editor's Picks Solo again will face domestic violence charges Star goalkeeper Hope Solo will again face domestic violence charges after a Washington state appeals court on Friday reversed a lower court's decision to dismiss the case. In March, Solo was riding in a Team USA van near Los Angeles while her husband, Jerramy Stevens, was drunk and behind the wheel, when police pulled them over at 1:49 a.m. Solo was suspended from the team for 30 days for the latest in a series of troubling incidents. Solo, in a court appearance in Kirkland, Washington, faced two counts of domestic violence, but the charges were dismissed on procedural grounds. From ESPN’s report, Solo and the teen quarreled shortly before 1 a.m., with Solo telling him he was too “fat, unathletic and crazy” to ever be an athlete. Instead, Solo followed him into the home's converted garage, where the teenager then yelled for his mother, prompting Solo to call him a "pussy" and a "mama's boy," he said to police and in his deposition, which is also under seal but was obtained by Outside the Lines. From ESPN: 
 
 He told police Solo lunged at him to “take a swing,” hitting him lightly in the face. He said she charged and struck him multiple times. Obert, who had come into the room, said in her deposition and in an interview with Outside the Lines that her son briefly subdued Solo and she seemed to calm down. Obert told the teenager to let his aunt up off the ground. "She's done," Obert recalled telling her son, according to her deposition. He didn't believe his mom, but she said, "No, she's done. She's been a fantastic player and teammate. You can let go, she’s done.” But when Obert’s son let Solo go, he told police she “immediately grabbed his hair, pulled his head down and started punching him in the face repeatedly.” Later, in the deposition, he said Solo “jumped on top of me and started bashing my head into the cement” inside the garage. "She grabbed him by the head and she kept slamming him into the cement over and over again," Obert told Outside the Lines. "So I came from behind her, and I pulled her over and, you know, to get her off my son. And then, once she got off, she started punching me in the face over and over again.” 
 
 After the nephew dialed 911, he grabbed a broken BB gun (Solo says it was a handgun). Obert's son said to the police and in his deposition that he then grabbed a wooden broomstick -- he alternately described it as a paint-roller pole -- and hit Solo over the head with it, breaking it. Sgt. When he knocked on the door, it was immediately opened by Obert's son, who said, according to police, "Good, the police are here, come in and get her out of our house!" The teenager was holding both halves of the wooden stick and a metal pole, both of which he dropped when Goguen ordered him to do so. According to the ESPN story, Obert said that an interview Solo gave on Good Morning America was what prompted her to speak out and give further details on events that night and the pair's troubled relationship. Phil Goguen, the first police officer to arrive, noted that, “When [Solo] spoke, her speech was slurred and I could smell the odor of intoxicating liquor on her breath.” 
 
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 Fainaru-Wada goes on to describe in detail how the case against Solo was adjudicated. "It just hurts me when she makes a poor choice to take a few steps backwards and head back to maybe where she came from.'' "Honestly, I didn't discuss it with her for one second." He asked to examine her head but she "adamantly declined." Veteran forward Abby Wambach insisted the Solo saga had barely been noticed within the team. "When [Goguen] called me and told me they had placed [Solo] under arrest and were going to book her, there was no doubt in his mind that she was the primary aggressor," Murray said. "And the other officers, it was clear to them that she was the primary aggressor." (Bruce Fedyck / USA Today) 
 
 A day before the U.S. women’s national team opens its World Cup play, the sister of goalie Hope Solo has spoken up and documents reveal new details about a domestic violence incident involving the family last June. Romeo Guzman/CSM/AP Images 
 
 Meanwhile, U.S. Soccer, which oversees all national teams, including the Women's World Cup squad, remained largely silent as it faced questions about whether to punish Solo. "This is going to be a spectacular event and for me, I am going to talk about all positives – no matter what happens throughout this tournament." It was a wonderful day, but it was a long [seven] months." 'It's like a death. It’s worse.” 
 
 Solo will be in goal for the team against Australia and the U.S. team has little choice but to go with the 33-year-old because her backups, Ashlyn Harris and Alyssa Naeher, are untested. It was his idea and we did some sage or whatever; we did, you know, aromatherapy. After the incident, a temporary restraining order keeping Solo from having contact with the Oberts was put in place. “I think it’s so tragic, it’s so sad,” Obert told Fainaru-Wada. "... And I know me going [public], this is just sealing the nail in the coffin for our relationship. No matter what happens next, Obert knows the family is fractured further by her decision to speak. And I cried about it. I've done all these different emotions but I realized if I do not stick up for my son and the truth, then I'm doing a disservice to him as a mother. "And so the future, I know we won't be in each other's lives, you know? Because I know she is so strong-willed. She'll never tell the truth. And she'll hate me for doing this. She probably believes her story at this point. So, yeah. I guess, you know, I did mourn my sister, have gone through every emotion.
– The USA plays its opening match in the Women's World Cup today, but goalie Hope Solo's personal life is getting more press than the soccer tournament. An ESPN Outside the Lines report yesterday looked into Solo's arrest on domestic violence charges last year, exposing some new details, including alleged obnoxious behavior after her arrest. In a jail report obtained by ESPN, an officer says Solo "showed signs of being intoxicated" and was aggressive and insulting, telling an officer that the necklace he asked her to remove was "worth more than he made in a year," calling another officer "a 14-year-old boy," and warning an officer she'd "kick his ass" if she wasn't in handcuffs. The ESPN report, which included an interview with the half-sister Solo was accused of assaulting, is at odds with the account of the incident Solo has given the public, including on a Good Morning America interview, reports the Washington Post, which notes that prosecutors filed a rare appeal after the charges were dismissed and that the next hearing is in July. Despite the drama, fellow players and head coach Jill Ellis deny that Solo is in any way a bad influence on the squad. "We've moved on. She's been a fantastic player and teammate," Ellis tells USA Today. "None of that has even resonated with us, and I'm sure some of the players aren't even aware of it." (In January, Solo was suspended for 30 days after her husband was pulled over on suspicion of DUI.)