The New York City Police Department is investigating the vandalism on several posters of U.S. women's soccer team captain Megan Rapinoe as a possible hate crime.
Eight posters featuring Rapinoe, who is openly gay, were found marked with various homophobic statements at the mezzanine for the B train at the Bryant Park subway station on 42nd Street in Manhattan on Monday night, a police source told ABC News.
(MORE: 'Your message is excluding people': Megan Rapinoe doubles down on her Trump criticism)The posters were found the day after the U.S. women's team defeated the Netherlands in Lyon, France, to win the 2019 FIFA World Cup.
The team celebrated their victory in a ticker-tape parade in downtown New York City on Wednesday.
(MORE: US women's soccer World Cup ticker tape parade marked by calls for equal pay)During her parade speech, Rapinoe praised the diversity of her teammates.
"We have pink hair and purple hair. We have tattoos and dreadlocks. We got white girls and black girls and everything in between, straight girls and gay girls," she said to a cheering crowd.
The team traveled to Los Angeles later that day to attend the ESPY awards, where they won "Best Team."