U.S. women’s soccer captain Megan Rapinoe said Thursday the team “won’t accept anything less than equal pay” a day after mediation efforts broke down in its lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation.
In defiant interviews on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “CBS This Morning,” Rapinoe and teammate Christen Press said that during negotiations, which were cut short, USSF and its president, Carlos Cordeiro, “weren’t willing to start there with equality.”
“It’s not just a word you can say, it’s something you have to stand behind,” Press said on ABC, “because on this issue there is no social equality for women without financial equality.