As the World Cup approached, members of the U.S. women's soccer team tried to meet with U.S. Soccer's president to resolve their pay-discrimination suit. The meeting never happened.
When the U.S. women’s soccer team and the U.S. Soccer Federation agreed recently to take the women’s pay-equity suit to mediation after the World Cup, it seemed like a sudden shift in a yearslong battle.
But from the day the players’ lawsuit against their employer was filed in March—just three months before their World Cup title defense began—team members made repeated personal appeals to U.S. Soccer Federation president Carlos Cordeiro attempting to resolve it, according to records viewed by The Wall Street Journal before...
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