USWNT: Cat Macario’s Rise + The Equal Pay Settlement
The Lead
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🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
There’s another superstar emerging for the USWNT — Catarina Macario. The excitement around the 22-year-old is at a fevered pitch after she scored two incredible goals against Iceland to help the Americans seal their third straight SheBelieves Cup. Today, The Athletic’s Meg Linehan joins us to talk about how the Brazilian-born forward came in to the national team setup and just how high her ceiling really is. Later, Meg tells us about the latest developments in the USWNT’s fight for equal pay.
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| 0:31.6 | The US Women's National team secured two major victories last month. |
| 0:36.6 | The Cario on the right, bids it into the one at the top. |
| 0:43.0 | One was on the pitch, led by an emerging superstar. |
| 0:46.2 | And the other was in the courtroom. |
| 0:52.5 | Tonight in historic win for the US Women's National Soccer team, a $24 million settlement |
| 0:57.9 | reached with the US Soccer Federation. |
| 1:01.0 | Today, the athletics Meg Linnahan joins us to talk about the rise of US Soccer's next potential |
| 1:05.9 | superstar, Brazilian-born Catarina Macario, and just how good she could become. |
| 1:11.9 | So this is not a player that shies away from challenges, and I think that's a really |
| 1:16.7 | good sign. |
| 1:17.7 | And it feels like we are only at the beginning of the story and the ceiling feels just so |
| 1:25.6 | high with her. |
| 1:27.6 | Plus, the latest developments in the US Women's National team's fight for equal pay. |
| 1:33.0 | From Wondering and the Athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. |
| 1:36.0 | This Thursday, March 3rd, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:43.6 | Meg Linnahan, welcome back to The Lead. |
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