The United States Soccer Federation and its World Cup champion women’s team said Tuesday that they had resolved the players’ outstanding claims about working conditions, a rare moment of détente — and mutual happiness — before the sides’ long-running fight about equal pay returns to federal court.
The agreement, filed in United States District Court for the Central District of California, is equal parts labor peace and legal maneuvering. For the players and their lawyers, the deal brings opportunity: In settling their issues related to working conditions, the women’s stars cleared the way to appealing a judge’s decision in May that had rejected most of their equal pay claims.