U.S women’s soccer team players Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan and U.S. Soccer Federation President Cindy Parlow Cone join TODAY to discuss the historic victory on equal pay in the sport. “For us as players, I’m just so proud of the way we stuck together and really just put our foot down. This is a huge win for us,” Rapinoe says.
Alex Morgan, two-time Women's World Cup champion, announced her retirement from soccer Thursday in a tearful video telling fans that she is proud to have played a hand in 'pushing the game forward' for young girls. The 35-year-old forward also announced that she's expecting her second child. But before that news, Morgan said that she knew at the beginning of the year that would be her final season with the National Women's Soccer League.
women's team has won multiple Olympic medals and World Cup tournaments, the men's team has never had substantial success on the international stage. Their biggest World Cup success was placing third in 1930. The U.S. Soccer federation settled the suit for $24 million in 2022, which Morgan described as a 'proud moment for all of us' in an interview with NBC's 'TODAY' show. But she also said the work was not over. 'U.S.
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