New United States president Joe Biden is anticipated to proceed to a reform that can change the historical past of soccer within the nation.
Following Megan Rapinoe‘s remarks in regards to the members of the US girls’s nationwide crew deserving equal pay to that of the lads’s facet, Biden was vocal on social media, stressing that he’ll try to vary that inequality ought to he be elected US president.
Final Could, courts dismissed the ladies’s nationwide crew gamers lawsuit filed towards the USA Soccer Federation, in search of 66 million {dollars} in damages underneath the Equal Pay Act.
Following that ruling, Biden took to social media to publicly categorical his assist on the gamers.
“To the USWNT: do not quit this battle. This isn’t over but,” wrote Biden.
“To US Soccer [Federation]: equal pay, now. Or else once I’m president, you possibly can go elsewhere for World Cup funding.”
In December the 2 events had reached a principal settlement for the gamers to enhance their working circumstances and the ladies’s crew achieved getting the identical choices as the lads in constitution flights and locations to remain throughout their excursions.
With Biden’s presence within the White Home and Kamala Harris as vp, the 2 leaders might negotiate with the US Soccer Federation to introduce equal pay quickly.
