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New USWNT coach Emma Hayes reveals first roster
The U.S. Women's National Team revealed the roster Tuesday for next month's friendlies against South Korea.,The matches on June 1 in Commerce City, Colo., and June 4 in St. Paul, Minn., will be the last ones before the 2024 Paris Olympics team is announced.,They also will be the first matches under ...
After one last Chelsea title, Emma Hayes now focused on USWNT
After guiding Chelsea to the Women's Super League title for the seventh time, Emma Hayes is a woman with just one job.,Hayes can fully concentrate on being coach of the United States Women's National Team after Chelsea's 6-0 win over Manchester United on Saturday. It marked the fifth straight WSL ti...
The USWNT’s fight is with FIFA
Yesterday, the USWNT and U.S. Soccer dotted the I’s and crossed the T’s on their settlement over the amenities/facilities/training half of their dispute over equal pay. While it’s a good thing that the women’s team will have the same flights, hotels, medical and training staff as the men, the settle...
The USWNT is halfway there, but pay equity is the tricky bit
The U.S. Women’s national soccer team’s fight for equality got a boost yesterday when they and U.S. Soccer came to a settlement on all the issues that weren’t thrown out by the court back in the spring. ...
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You Can Cut Off Its Head, But The U.S. Soccer Federation - And The Dudes Running It - Are Still A Bunch Of Snakes
It wasn’t quite a Friday night news dump, but coming in the wake of a pandemic and the world’s first mass-sports suspension, it still made for tidy cover for something slimy to slither out the side door without anyone noticing. Last night, after all North American pro sports leagues were suspending ...
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The USWNT Is Making The Best And Easiest Choice For Its Next Manager [Update]
For once, U.S. Soccer is doing something smart. The federation confirmed that it will announce the next manager of the USWNT on Monday, and multiple reports, including from Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl, say the choice is going to be Reign FC boss Vlatko Andonovski. Rejoice, because this is the ri...
Carli Lloyd On Playing Every Single Match And Winning The World Cup: "It Sucked"
Leave it to Carli Lloyd to win the World Cup at 37 years of age, appearing in every match as the team’s crucial super-sub and performing the role with aplomb, and still being extremely mad at how everything went down because she didn’t play literally every single minute of every single game....
Mediation Talks Between The USWNT And U.S. Soccer Were A Big Ol' Dud
The long-anticipated mediation talks between U.S. Soccer and the USWNT have already ended, as of Wednesday afternoon. You are likely just learning about this week’s meetings for two reasons; first, because the participants agreed to maintain “the strictest secrecy” about their details, including tim...
U.S. Soccer Hires Lobbyists To Fight Equal Pay Bill In Congress
As the USWNT continues its fight for equal pay against U.S. Soccer, which is supposed to enter into mediation soon, Democratic lawmakers in both the House and the Senate have introduced legislation that would withhold federal funding from the 2026 World Cup (hosted by North America) if the men’s and...
USWNT Coach Jill Ellis Steps Down After Five Years And Two World Cups
According to a report from the Equalizer, USWNT manager Jill Ellis will not return to coach the two-time defending World Cup champions for any more competitive games. Ellis’s contract expires on Wednesday, July 31, and though she and the U.S. Soccer Federation had a mutual option to extend it throug...
USMNT Rips U.S. Soccer's "False Accounting" And Odd Claims About Equal Pay
Last night, U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro dropped a letter and accompanying fact sheet supporting a claim that his federation invests more heavily in women’s soccer than men’s. Immediately afterwards, the USWNT called bullshit on Cordeiro’s selective numbers and creative accounting, and toda...
U.S. Soccer Releases Dubious Numbers To Refute Claims Of Pay Inequality
U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro released a letter and accompanying fact sheet Monday evening intended to demonstrate that his federation invests more heavily in women’s soccer than it does in men’s. The purpose here is to refute the notion that men’s national team members are paid more than th...
Hope Solo Petitions Court To Join USWNT's Equal Pay Mediation As The Designated Ass-Kicker
The USWNT will soon enter mediation with the U.S. Soccer Federation in an effort to resolve the team’s equal pay lawsuit. Former USWNT star Hope Solo is concerned about whether the current national team will have the kind of cussed hard-ass they’ll need on their side so that they don’t settle for an...
USWNT's Ashlyn Harris Says Former Teammate Was Excluded For Homophobia, Not Christianity
In the never-ending search for fuel to feed the conservative backlash against the world champion USWNT, some media outlets—mostly of the conservative Christian variety—dredged up a year-old interview with former USWNT defender Jaelene Hinkle. Talking to The 700 Club last May, Hinkle said that she tu...
USWNT Press Officer On Christen Press's Barstool Sports Partnership: "Something Seems Amiss!"
During Wednesday’s victory parade for the USWNT, Christen Press briefly took over the Barstool Sports Instagram account, where she posted videos of her and her teammates celebrating. Later that day, Barstool Sports published a post under the headline “Confirmed: The USWNT Loves Barstool Sports,” in ...
We Need To Talk About Russell Westbrook
We’re officially in the slowest part of the sports calendar: There is no real basketball on (get out of here, we’re not counting Summer League), soccer just wrapped up its summer tournaments, baseball is in the dead zone between the All-Star Game and September, and so on. But the streets demand the ...
The USWNT Put On A Show At Today’s Victory Parade
The United States women’s national soccer team cruised through the World Cup, winning every game all while getting slammed for being too arrogant. They’ve now been celebrating for about three days, including today’s ticker-tape parade through the streets of Manhattan....