U.S. women's national team stars Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe appeared on Good Morning America and expressed their shock and dismay after a federal judge dismissed the players' arguments that they were systematically underpaid by U.S. Soccer in comparison to the men's national team.
Last Friday, Judge R. Gary Klausner of the United States District Court for the Central District of California ruled the USWNT players "have not demonstrated a triable issue that WNT players are paid less than MNT players." U.S. Soccer contested that women's players were pad more in total and on a per-game basis than the men's players from 2015 to 2019.