U.S. women's national team stars Megan Rapinoe and Christen Press have said that U.S. Soccer's lack of interest in paying them equal bonuses as the men's team led to the breakdown of mediation talks between the two sides this week.
U.S. Soccer and the USWNT held mediation talks in New York this week but on Wednesday, a USWNT spokeswoman said that those talks had broken down.
The two sides were looking for a way to settle the USWNT's gender discrimination lawsuit out of court but after the talks produced no results, a trial appears more likely than ever.