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Soccer's vice president, condemned the USSF's legal arguments. Major sponsors, including Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble, released statements supporting the athletes. WNT members wore their jerseys inside out in protest. In the court of public opinion, however, something snapped after those March filings. The athletes are planning to appeal, but at least for the moment, crucial parts of the suit have been dismissed.

He also found that the WNT made more money than the men's team from 2015 to 2019. Gary Klausner held that the women's national team had agreed to the terms of the deal that paid them. Soccer on most of the key issues at stake in the lawsuit. On May 1, a federal judge sided with U.S. Instead, the federation proceeded to file thousands of pages of documents asserting that, as one motion put it, "WNT and MNT players do not perform equal work requiring equal skill, effort and responsibility under similar working conditions." This past March, the USSF even declared it was entitled to treat men better because of biology: "The overall soccer-playing ability required to compete at the senior men's national team level is materially influenced by the level of certain physical attributes, such as speed and strength." Soccer was already battling the women's national team in court, after all 28 members sued their national federation in March 2019 for "purposeful gender discrimination." It could have been the moment for USSF officials to declare victory and get out of that war, to find some way to share with the athletes the public triumphs and financial gains of American soccer. Soccer explained: Defining pay gaps, what's at stakeĪt that time, U.S. Soccer Federation, began speaking in front of City Hall, shouts drowned him out: Editor's Picks When Carlos Cordeiro, then president of the U.S. It happened again three days later, after a ticker tape parade through New York's Canyon of Heroes honored the four-time Cup winners. So as FIFA president Gianni Infantino strode across the pitch at Stade Lyon to present the American women with their trophy, the crowd of 57,900 began to roar. Indeed, the $30 million awarded to all of the athletes combined at the 2019 Women's World Cup would not even equal the $38 million the French national team made after winning the 2018 men's World Cup, where prize money totaled $400 million. But by the time Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and their mates were celebrating their triumph, the world knew they would earn just $4 million collectively, a fraction of what their male counterparts had taken home a year earlier. The American squad beat the Netherlands 2-0 in the final, capping a month of dominance in which Team USA outscored opponents 26-3. women's soccer team won the World Cup last July.

THE CHANTS BEGAN almost as soon as the U.S.