Two years after resigning amid the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s equal-pay fight, Carlos Cordeiro says he wants to return as president of the sport’s American governing body.
He announced Wednesday that he will challenge incumbent Cindy Parlow Cone in the U.S. Soccer Federation election March 5. The former U.S. star is the first woman to lead the Chicago-based organization.
The deadline for entering the race was late Tuesday night. Although the USSF said it would not formally announce the list of candidates until later in the week, Cordeiro wrote on his campaign website that he will run again.