Upfront: A landmark day for U.S. Soccer and another cup final!
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Flo, Rachel and Chloe react to the seismic news that, after six years, a group of U.S. Women's players settled their ongoing lawsuit with U.S. Soccer around equal pay and fair remuneration for future generations.
To help us understand the ramifications and what happens next, we're joined by the Wall Street Journal's Rachel Bachman, who's been at the heart of this story. We also look ahead to this week's League Cup final and ask whether Man City can halt Chelsea's imperious form.
Thanks to Rachel Bachman for joining us! You can read her excellent article about this week's story here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Upfront on Football Rumble Presents I'm Flo Lloyd Hughes. I'm Chloe Morgan and I'm |
| 0:08.2 | Rachel O'Sullivan. Today we're taking a special look at the monumental day for U.S. women's football |
| 0:13.4 | as the national team finally settled their equal pay lawsuit against the U.S. soccer federation. |
| 0:19.1 | But is it really the big win it's been reported as we speak to Rachel Backman from the Wall Street |
| 0:23.6 | Journal to find out more. So U.S. soccer has said it will refuse to sign and ratify either |
| 0:29.7 | of those agreements if they don't equalize pay going forward. So essentially what this settlement |
| 0:37.5 | relies on is not only the finalizing of the women's collective revenue agreement but also the U.S. |
| 0:43.4 | men's teams. Plus we preview Man City and Chelsea's battle in the Conti Cup final this Saturday. |
| 0:50.2 | It was a fun weekend of vitality women's FA Cup fifth round action. Rachel you were at the crazy |
| 1:03.2 | game that finished with absolute scenes. I think that clip that someone shared I don't know if it was |
| 1:09.3 | the video that you shared but there was a video that I kept seeing on my timeline that's definitely |
| 1:13.1 | gone viral of that header in the last minute of extra time. So there was ours and there was |
| 1:17.7 | someone else's in right chair. But I think it was the other person who got shared by vitality |
| 1:24.0 | Cup. But yeah I had the video out because I basically wanted to film you know Ipswich |
| 1:29.3 | celebrating it was the last minute of extra time. So I wanted to film them celebrating the win |
| 1:34.0 | and the crowd and stuff. And up pops Randall to just head home goalkeeper heads home in the final |
| 1:39.3 | minute like last kick of the game and I managed to capture that so that was pretty cool and probably |
| 1:43.7 | the most exciting part of that game because they kept the goals till very very late. |
| 1:48.1 | But yeah they ended up Ipswich ended up winning it on penalties and so it got quite exciting |
| 1:53.9 | right towards the end. I was going to say as well for Ipswich I mean like psychologically for Ipswich |
| 1:58.5 | to feel like they've almost thrown the game away having been seconds away from getting through |
| 2:03.2 | to the next round to then compose themselves and win the pen to shoot out. It's pretty impressive |
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