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Exclusive: Heather O’Reilly on feeling ‘crushed’ by US Soccer’s sexism, staying positive amid coronavirus and more

These are uncertain times in American soccer. Between games being put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic and the recent shake-ups at U.S. Soccer, everything feels a bit up in the air.

For Heather O'Reilly, the former U.S. women's national team star, it's better to confront these issues than to avoid them.

O’Reilly was one of the first and most prominent voices to call out U.S. Soccer for the sexist language used in its legal defense of the USWNT's equal pay lawsuit, tweeting that "to read that U.S. Soccer thinks this of the USWNT and female athletes in general is disgusting and disturbing to me.