Inside the US Soccer Equal Pay Fight

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🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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A two-time World Cup and Olympic soccer champion, US team alumna Julie Foudy gives a candid inside look at the battle over fair pay for female players. US Soccer Federation president Carlos Cordeiro just resigned amidst controversy over sexist language in USSF's legal filings. Since filing that suit in March 2019, the USWNT won its fourth FIFA World Cup and continued its streak of global dominance. Foudy details what it's taken to move the case forward, while the team continues to play at a top level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just a recap on what the US soccer lawyers said in court as part of this gender discrimination lawsuit on Monday.
0:09.3	The women do not perform equal work requiring equal skill and effort to the men because the overall soccer playing ability required to compete at the senior men's level is materially influenced by the level of certain physical
0:21.9	attributes such as speed and strength, an appalling misstep from the US Soccer Law.
0:32.6	The US Soccer Federation is in a firestorm, thanks to an own goal by their lawyers in their
0:38.7	ongoing dispute with the U.S. women's national team over gender discrimination.
0:43.4	Today, what's really being argued in this complicated case, and whether the reigning World
0:49.4	Cup champions could be on the verge of a major victory for equal pay?
0:57.7	I'm Mina Kimes. It's Thursday, March 19th.
1:02.2	This is ESPN Daily, presented by ADT.
1:11.5	Hi, Julie. Hi, Julie.
1:12.8	Hi, Mina.
1:20.5	Julie Fowdy is a soccer commentator for ESPN and was a member of the U.S. Women's National Team from 1987 to 2004.
1:23.4	She also hosts the podcast, Laughter Permitted.
1:31.8	So, Julie, it's been a chaotic few days, and I use the word chaotic relatively now, for American soccer.
1:37.1	Late last week, the president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, Carlos Cordero, resigned.
1:39.6	What was the chain of events that brought that about?
1:42.9	We need a couple days and a lot of wine for that, Mina, actually. I think we have that, actually, right now.
1:46.9	We do.
1:48.3	It all started, obviously, with the lawsuit that the women filed last March for gender discrimination.
1:54.1	And then there was a brief that really triggered this avalanche that was released last week. Their central argument was
2:05.8	women are inherently inferior to men. This from the USSF defense, quote, the job of a men's
2:14.7	national team player requires a higher level of skill based on speed and strength and does the job of a women's national team player.
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