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USWNT file federal complaint over wage discrimination

Seattle Reign FC players Hope Solo and Megan Rapinoe are two of five players representing the USWNT in the complaint.

On the heels of a scathing New York Daily News article detailing how U.S. Soccer constructed an unequal pay scheme, five U.S. Women's National Team players—Seattle Reign FC's Hope Solo and Megan Rapinoe, along with Carli Lloyd, Becky Sauerbrunn, and Alex Morgan—have filed a federal complaint claiming wage discrimination.

In the complaint—submitted to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency that enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination—players requested an investigation of U.