Alex Morgan Says U.S. Women’s National Team Is Optimistic About Equal Pay Proposals

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United States women’s soccer star Alex Morgan commented Wednesday on the United States Soccer Federation offering the USWNT equal pay to the men’s team.

According to ESPN, Morgan said:

“We still need to chat about the statement given by U.S. Soccer. But any commitment to equal pay publicly is good.

“However, we need to look line by line at what they’re actually providing, because if you have equal but it’s not even what we got before, or to the value that we are, then we still consider that to be not good enough. We will continue to work with U.S. Soccer moving forward, looking towards equal and fair payment and treatment.”

Morgan added:

“We don’t want to start the new year without a new CBA in effect, so that’s the number one priority of our PA, of our legal team. Looking at the [USSF] statements, it’s difficult to say. We want to feel encouraged and we want to be optimistic, but we have seen a lot of statements before.

“What we really want to do is see what we can do at the negotiation table, see those statements be put into action in those negotiations. So, of course, we’re always hopeful; you have to continue to have hope.”

U.S. Soccer announced Tuesday that it had offered the USWNT and USMNT identical proposals in an effort to create “a single collective bargaining agreement (CBA) structure.”

This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.

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