by admin | Sep 15, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The U.S. Soccer Federation said it had offered identical contract proposals Tuesday to the players’ associations for the men’s and women’s national teams, and the governing body said it would refuse to agree to a deal in which World Cup prize money is not equalized....
by admin | Sep 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Former USWNT head coach Jill Ellis has joined FIFA as a lead adviser on the future of women’s soccer, tasked to examine changes to the international match calendar. Ellis joins the board as FIFA intensifies their campaign to turn the World Cup into a biennial event...
by admin | Sep 13, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
U.S. Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone on Friday sent an open letter asking the unions of the women’s and men’s national teams to agree to equalize FIFA’s World Cup prize money. She called for the men’s national team to allow the...
by admin | Sep 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Nadia Nadim remembers the moment she fell in love with football. She was in Denmark when she saw some girls kicking a ball around on a field, uninhibited. “That’s the first time I got to see that girls actually did play football at the schools. And right...
by admin | Sep 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
USWNT forward Christen Press has confirmed that she will be taking a break from her career for the next ‘couple of months’ in order to focus on her mental health. That decision will rule the two-time World Cup winner out of at least four upcoming international matches...
by admin | Sep 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
U.S. women’s national team forward Christen Press on Thursday announced plans to take time away from soccer, citing a desire to focus on her mental health, spiritual growth, and processing grief. Press, who starred at Chadwick School on the Palos Verdes Peninsula,...
by admin | Sep 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Though the Tokyo Olympics are just barely in the rearview mirror, Alex Morgan and the US Women’s National Team are already looking ahead to what comes next. “You look at the next big tournament, which is the World Cup, and we have two years,” Morgan...
by admin | Sep 6, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
A viral video of the makeshift weight rooms at this year’s NCAA March Madness tournament, posted by University of Oregon’s Sedona Prince, gained national attention for encapsulating the gender disparity that exists between men’s and women’s...
by admin | Sep 4, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The first voice message was from a 16-year-old forward, knee-deep in a trench filled with sewage and panicking in the crowds swarming Hamid Karzai International Airport. “We are desperate,” she cried over the clamor of gunfire and coughing children. “I cannot stand on...
by admin | Sep 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
U.S. women’s national team star Tobin Heath will join Arsenal on a free transfer, according to Sky Sports. Heath, a two-time World Cup winner with the United States, spent last season with Manchester United. She was available for a free transfer after leaving...
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