Cindy Parlow Cone has sat on both sides of the negotiating table in U.S. Soccer’s equal pay fight, first as a player for the women’s national team and most recently as the federation’s president. “We’re not on opposite sides,” Cone said Friday morning. “It may seem that way at times, but we’re on the same team, we all have the same goal. It’s just how do we get there.”Last week, Cone took aim at what she sees as the biggest obstacle to resolving the equal pay fight: the unequal prize money FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, pays to teams that participate in the World Cup. In private letters to the players associations of the men’s and women’s national teams, and in a public one sent to fans and U.S. Soccer members on Friday, Cone and U.S. Soccer proposed a new round of negotiations that would bring together the federation and its men’s and women’s teams to seek a negotiated split of World Cup prize money.

Source: International New York Times September 10, 2021 15:44 UTC