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A long, long journey is finally at its end.

The United States men's and women's national teams have agreed to a first of its kind joint collective bargaining agreement, one which guarantees equal pay for both teams.

Meg Winnihan has covered this story very closely

since the very beginning, and she joins the show today to reflect on all that happened over

the course of this story and what could come next. From The Athletic, I'm Alex Abnos, and this is

soccer every day for Thursday, May 19th. The U.S. women and the U.S. men's national teams,

the senior national teams have signed a new joint CBA, which guarantees equal pay between both

teams. This is obviously huge news. It's been a long time in the making, and right there

along the ride for a lot of it has been

Meg Linahan.

She is here today on the show.

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