allie_long_: Iāve been waiting to post this since Oct 29, 2016. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, I love ya lots. šÆšš @alexmorgan13 oh and @sonny_dayes in the back lookin fresh.
US teammates Alex Morgan and Carli Lloyd are preparing to play against each other in the Women's Champions League semifinals as Olympique Lyon take on Manchester City Ladies Saturday, 22 April.
The deal, which runs through 2021, guarantees the players improved pay and bonuses, but not the equal pay with the menās team they had sought.
The United States womenās soccer team pressed its fight for equal pay not in one dramatic moment at the negotiating table, but in a thousand small ones away from it. In text messages and phone calls, in hotel rooms and on bus rides, and at home in far-flung cities, the players fine-tuned their needs and their arguments and their solidarity.
Sometimes the suggestions arrived in an overnight email from forward Alex Morgan in France, or a late-night one from midfielder Megan Rapinoe on the West Coast. They sent out anonymous surveys to their teammates, to better gauge what people prioritized but might not want to say aloud, and weighed in on legal language and PowerPoint slides in a cache of shared Google Docs.
As the talks intensified in recent weeks, players like Becky Sauerbrunn and Meghan Klingenberg conferred with teammates like Kelley OāHara and Christen Press to propose changes as small as a single word in page after page of proposed contract language. Then they would rehearse what they would say at each negotiating session, and even decide who would say it.
Kling has a degree in Business Admin, Press has a degree in Communications, Becky has a degree in English, Kelley has a degree in Science, Technology and Society. Sounds like the 4 of them def used their degrees to benefit this negotiation! Also noted with Krieger at the table she has a degree in Public Relations
The Orlando Pride has signed five-time FIFA World Player of the Year Marta, a major coup for a second-year team with lots of ambitionāand for the NWSL
Twenty-one-year-old Rose Lavelle was the first pick in the NWSL draft in January, made her U.S. national team debut shortly afterward, and is now with her international teammates as they prepare to face Russia.
U.S. Soccer on Wednesday announced that it had finalized a new collective bargaining agreement with the Women's National Team Player's Association through 2021. The agreement goes through the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2020 Olympics.
The USWNT veteran talks about adjusting to life at Olympique Lyonnais, the differences between European and American soccer, as well as her future plans.
Heath is usually content to let her game speak for itself. JERSEY CITY, N.J. ā If Tobin Heath remains a magnificent enigma in her 10th year on the United States womenās national team, thatās less by design than indifference.
Unlike most of her fellow stars on the team, you wonāt see much of her away from the field. She doesnāt do bikini shoots. Sheās isnāt on magazine covers. The USWNTās reigning Player of the Year has a habit of ignoring interview requests, actually.
āIām not opposed to it,ā she said in an interview with Yahoo Sports that she was somehow talked into doing. āI think Iām more traditional in how I do media. I want my brand to be about football. Iām a footballer through and through. Itās all Iāve ever wanted to be.ā
She lives on Tobin Time, moving at her own speed. She isnāt sure what Tobin Time is when sheās asked about it ā itās a term used by some of those around her.
āIt sounds like something fun is going to happen,ā Heath said before she bursts out laughing. But she sort of gets it. āI definitely donāt abide by most rules.ā More laughter. āI donāt ever know the schedule. I guess I do live on my own planet sometimes.ā
Thereās a reason her socks always have that signature sag. āBecause I have big calves and I donāt like socks,ā Heath said. āPlus, I get kicked on my ankles. You donāt get kicked high up on your leg.ā So she likes her shin guards lower down. Itās mostly the sockophobia, though. It should be noted that, on a frigid day, sheās wearing flip-flops for our interview.
As the USWNT plays in the SheBelieves Cup, Julie Foudy discusses leadership styles and believing in yourself with soccer legend Mia Hamm and current U.S. star Alex Morgan.
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