With only three months before the start of the 2019 Women's World Cup, all 28 players of the reigning champ U.S. Women's National Soccer Team filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, alleging violations of federal equal pay and civil rights laws.
In fact, the U.S. women's team is the most successful female soccer team in World Cup play, having won a total of three championships. By contrast, the men's team has never placed better than third at the World Cup, and that was in 1930. While a number of female athletic teams do not have comparable audiences to their male counterparts, the lawsuit points out that this is not true for women's soccer in the U.S. The team notes that the July 2015 World Cup title game, in which the U.S. beat Japan to claim its third world title, was"the most watched soccer game in American TV history."
In 2016, notes the lawsuit, U.S. Soccer once again said no to demands of equal pay, saying that “market realities are such that the women do not deserve to be paid equally to the men," even though — per the team — the organization had already conceded that the women's team was more profitable and generated more revenue than the men.
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It's gonna be hilarious when they shut down the women's league.