Adidas announced on Friday that it will pay players it sponsors from the winning FIFA Women’s World Cup team equal performance bonuses as male champions.
The pledge from Eric Liedtke, the athletic apparel company’s head of global brands, comes on the same day that members of the U.S. women’s national team filed a gender discrimination suit against U.S. Soccer, claiming the national federation pays players on the women’s team less than their male counterparts and subjects them to more dangerous playing conditions.
The complaint, which seeks class action status to allow former players to join the litigation, alleges U.