
One of the most prominent American female football players said she considers this week’s $24m pay discrimination settlement between the US Women’s National Team and the US Soccer Federation to be a “heartbreaking and infuriating” failure.
On Tuesday, the USWMNT and USSF settled a long-running lawsuit accusing the federation of failing to pay the team, the most winning national outfit in women’s soccer globally, as much as America’s often hapless men’s team, violating the Equal Pay Act.