Members of the U.S. women’s national football team voiced frustration on Sunday in the ongoing back-and-forth with their federation over pay equality, as a May 5 trial date in their well-publicized lawsuit against U.S. Federation inched closer.
At issue was a letter to membership released on Saturday in which U.S. Federation President Carlos Cordeiro said the federation “offered to provide identical compensation to our women’s and men’s players for all matches controlled by U.S. Football.”
“They have repeatedly declined our invitation to meet on the premise that our proposal does not include U.S. Federation agreeing to make up the difference in future prize money awarded by FIFA for the Men’s and Women’s World Cups,” the letter said.
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