'It’s disheartening that we’ve gotten this far and they’re still just not as recognized as they should be.'
that FIFA, soccer’s governing hub, scheduled the South and North American confederation men’s finals on the same day as a U.S. women’s World Cup final match.“I played soccer because of [the women’s team],” says Sophia Segal, a 23-year-old recent graduate of the University of Wyoming, who attended the parade with her relatives. She brought along a six-foot tall papier-mâché cut-out of a woman soccer player holding a ball in one hand and the World Cup trophy in the other.
Rising freshman at the University of Mississippi, 17-year-old Jacqueline Cronen, also spoke of the importance of the women’s team in taking a stand against gender discrimination both on the field and in the workplace. She played soccer for more than 10 years, and she attended the parade with her family.
After the parade, New York City held a press conference where the players were gifted with symbolic keys to the city. There too, the spirit of equality dominated the event. People carried signs saying the women’s team members “deserve to get paid.
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