Amid fight for equal pay for US women’s soccer team, Megan Rapinoe delivers powerful message: 'To every girl out there ... you are not lesser.'
The US women's national soccer team just brought home another cup. But they've become so good at winning that their victory is not the story.
It's what happened before and after the game.Ahead of Wednesday's match at the SheBelieves Cup in Texas, the team stood for the National Anthem with their uniforms inside out -- to hide the US Soccer Federation logo. The USWNT has taken the field with their warm up jerseys inside out, hiding the US Soccer crest.
This is in response to the latest legal filings by the US Soccer Federation in the gender discrimination lawsuit filed by 28 US players. pic.twitter.com/BTZgYeeNMD — SportsCenter March 12, 2020 And afterward, US captain Megan Rapinoe tore into the US Soccer management. The bookends were two more salvos in a long-running feud over equal pay. The federation just this week claimed it won't pay women equally because being a male player requires more skill and responsibility.Read MoreRapinoe was having none of it."I just want to say, it's all false," she said in a post-game interview.
— z 🇺🇸 March 12, 2020 The federation made its argument in court documents filed Monday as part of a gender discrimination lawsuit filed a year ago by the US Women's National Team.
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