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US women fight for equality
- Updated: November 21, 2016
The US women’s football team have vowed to take their case for equal pay and conditions as far as it takes.
Carli Lloyd and team-mates Becky Sauerbrunn, Morgan Brian and Christen Press warned a strike was possible unless their pay and conditions were brought in line with their male counterparts when they appeared on CBS show 60 minutes.
“It would be a discussion that we would have to have,” US captain and defender Sauerbrunn said.
Lloyd, who scored a hat-trick against Japan to help secure a 5-2 win in last year’s Women’s World Cup final at Vancouver, said their fight for equality was important to women around the world and beyond football or sports.
“This is history-making what we’re doing, what we’re fighting for,” Lloyd said. “It not only resonates with this team and with generations to come, but it’s global as well.”
Asked how far they were willing to carry the fight for equal support from US Soccer, Lloyd added: “Until we get what we want.”
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