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U.S. Soccer on Monday released a lengthy fact sheet detailing its financial commitment to the World Cup-winning women’s national team program, stepping squarely into the debate about equal pay only weeks before the federation and the team are scheduled to enter mediation to try to resolve the players’ federal gender discrimination lawsuit.
U.S. Soccer’s president, Carlos Cordeiro, outlined the federation’s position in an open letter to the federation’s members in which he cited figures, produced in a federation analysis of 10 years of financial data, that he said showed the players on the women’s team had actually earned more from U.