USWNT players settled a portion of their ongoing lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation on Tuesday. The two sides agreed to grant USWNT players access to flights, hotels, resources, and venues on par with those provided to the men’s national team. Though USSF President Cindy Parlow Cone struck a collaborative […]
Head coach Vlatko Andonovski’s roster for the USWNT’s upcoming match against the Netherlands was published Tuesday. Megan Rapinoe, Carli Lloyd, and seven other 2019 World Cup players – Mal Pugh, Morgan Brian, Adrianna Franch, Ashlyn Harris, Allie Long, Jess McDonald, and Ali Krieger – did not make the latest roster. […]
Future US Women’s National Team star Catarina Macario earned her first call up to Vlatko Andonovski’s national team Thursday. That same day, the São Luís, Brazil, native became a US citizen. Macario penned a beautiful tribute to the American dream and thanked her family, teammates, coaches, and trainers on Twitter […]
Joe Biden tweeted Saturday in support of the US Women’s National Team’s ongoing legal battle for equal pay. The former vice president and presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee tweeted one day after US District Judge R. Gary Klausner threw out the team’s lawsuit over unequal pay. Biden urged the team to […]
US Soccer has officially walked back its argument that the USWNT is inferior in skill to the men’s national team, according to a filing made public on Tuesday. In the documents, lawyers for the federation wrote that “USSF no longer disputes that the jobs of the WNT and MNT players […]
The USWNT players protested the US Soccer federation by wearing their warm-up jerseys inside-out to hide the US Soccer crest prior to their SheBelieves Cup game against Japan Wednesday night. The move came in light of US Soccer’s recent filings in the widely-publicized equal pay lawsuit that justified lesser pay […]
US Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro issued an apology for “the offence and pain” caused by the language used in the federation’s recent filings in its equal pay lawsuit against the USWNT. The apology came while the USWNT was playing its third and final match of the 2020 SheBelieves Cup and […]
The USMNT broke its silence on the USWNT’s equal pay and gender discrimination lawsuit Wednesday. In a damning statement released by the players association, the men said US Soccer – both teams’ governing body – “had no intention of compensating the women fairly” because it was “trying to protect their […]
Vlatko Andonovski will be the next head coach of the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT), the US Soccer Federation announced on Monday. The 43-year-old was recently named the NWSL Coach of the Year after leading the injury-laden Seattle Reign to their second consecutive playoff semifinal. He came highly recommended […]
Mediation talks between the United States Women’s National Team and US Soccer Federation began on Wednesday but quickly broke down. Megan Rapinoe and Christen Press appeared on several morning shows on Thursday to discuss what went wrong, citing an inability to move past the concept of equal pay as the […]
The US women’s national team (USWNT) moves on to the World Cup final on Sunday. The USWNT continues to make strides and find success against powerful international opponents. The US men’s national team, on the other hand, just can’t seem to catch up. From developmental issues to diversity, here’s why […]
Tim Weah, a young soccer player for European powerhouse Paris Saint-Germain and a rising young star within U.S. Soccer, was looking to play some pick-up soccer while visiting his hometown of New York. He ended up playing a rec league match with teammates of a Sports Illustrated writer. Weah also […]
Landon Donovan recently announced that with the U.S. out of this year’s World Cup he would be supporting Mexico, as part of a sponsorship deal with Wells Fargo. Donovan’s move has drawn intense criticism, including from former U.S. teammates Carlos Bocanegra and Herculez Gomez. With the United States out of […]
Earnie Stewart, a former U.S. soccer player and experienced soccer executive, has been hired to the role of General Manager of the U.S. Men’s National Team. This role was created after the U.S. failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. However, the actual duties of this job are unclear […]
Business Insider had a chance to speak to a pair of ESPN personalities, including former U.S. World Cup player Herculez Gomez, about the lack of Hispanic-American representation in U.S. Soccer. The financial demands of playing the sport in the U.S., as well as a lack of representation in the federation, […]
Jurgen Klinsmann, the former head coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team and technical director of U.S. Soccer, still has plenty of suggestions for how to reform the program. Klinsmann suggests lengthening the MLS and college soccer seasons and is also heavily critical of the college model for developing players […]
Soccer legend Zlatan Ibrahimovic said in an interview that one way he could have helped the U.S. succeed in his sport would have been for him to have some American kids who would grow up to be stars. Unfortunately, he has a wife and kids already, so that cannot happen. […]
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