The approaching ladies’s Global Cup might be a world “paradigm shift” for girls’s sports activities, U.S. football celebrity and equivalent pay recommend Megan Rapinoe mentioned Tuesday.
Watch Rapinoe’s feedback within the participant above.
Rapinoe and different avid gamers from the U.S. ladies’s nationwide football workforce spoke to newshounds at a media match forward of coaching camp for the ladies’s Global Cup.
In line with a query via PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz about fresh positive aspects in ladies’s sports activities, Rapinoe famous that ladies’s sports activities around the globe have observed an uptick in pastime previously few years.
“You have observed what is took place since ultimate Global Cup — whether or not it is stadiums promoting out, or the ladies’s Ultimate 4, you understand, cricket league in India,” Rapinoe mentioned. “There is such a lot of examples of this and it seems like it is a paradigm shift, or a second we’re going to glance again to and say ‘not anything used to be ever the similar after this ladies’s Global Cup.'”
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The Global Cup runs July 20 to Aug. 20. It is not off course to grow to be probably the most attended standalone ladies’s wearing match in historical past, in line with FIFA, the world governing frame for the game
Rapinoe has helped lead the combat for equivalent pay for the ladies’s workforce, submitting a gender discrimination lawsuit in 2019. In Feb. 2022, U.S. ladies’s football avid gamers reached a $24 million agreement with the U.S. Football Federation.
In 2022, President Joe Biden awarded Rapinoe a Presidential Medal of Freedom, announcing in a commentary that she is “a outstanding recommend for gender pay equality, racial justice, and LGBTQI+ rights.”
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