just looking for somewhere cheaper to live and they just offered their home. they said technically you don t have a home, so you could just move in with us. this is just like, that break i ve been waiting for my entire career. it s like i just need solid support and being able to juggle my career at the same time. and i got. that when usa women s national soccer team has a full stadium coming to support them, that s beautiful. when people are on our side as female athletes, that s beautiful. it brings people together. it s absolutely changed my life. all these things helped shape me into the human being that i am.
it. let s just clap our hands and be done with all this. it was like okay, how does the appeals process work? do we need to bring on a new legal team. it was all like what s next, what s next, what s next, this fight is not over. we should also point out that the judge ruled that the u.s. women s national team earned more both cumulatively and on an average per-game basis than the men s team than the years the lawsuit is suing over. did his reasoning make sense to you? unfortunately, it did not makes sense to us. what we re arguing is about rate of pay. unfortunately, we had to pay about 30 more games and have to be very successful in all the games we played in to even make a comparable wage to what the men have. for us it s not about the cumulative amount. it s about the rate of pay n. that president are, there is discrimination. just to be clear, the prize money amounts for world cup specifically, they re determined by international association, not the u.s. soccer, is that
all the revenue they assign to the women s team and the revenue they assign to the men s team, if you add that all up, the women have made more than the men s team for ussf. the highest tv ratings in this country for any soccer game has been the championship game at the world cup of this women s team. and then they say, well, the women agreed to the agreement they have. they agreed to their compensation, so why should they complain? they accepted it. the problem with that is they were never presented the men s deal. they agreed to the best agreement presented to them at that time. had they been paid at the same rates, these women together would have made far more money. we believe the number is in excess of $60 million more for
behalf of u.s. soccer, i inserely apologize for the pain in the court filing that does not affect the values of the women s national team. i ve asked for a legal strategy going forward. i literally had that same emotion i used to have as a player that would hear u.s. soccer give a bull argument and you d have to call their bullshit. you re like no. how is this ever allowed to happen, sebastian? i don t get is how you get to this position where you re okay with letting your legal team run all these depositions in that manner. you know this is happening. what do you mean you didn t know about what was being filed? like, you re the person of u.s. soccer. your eyeballs didn t see this before it went out? clearly, u.s. soccer had to know so at that stage simply because
i am in the hospital. the pilot is a colonel. we are not naming for security reasons. he s one of over 60 my pilots and other in ubekistan. many of their families are still in afghanistan trying to get out. there is rarely a day that goes by where there is not an af afghan air force members that s detained or killed by the taliban. david hicks is working with part of a larger network, trying to get them to the u.s. all volunteers, former servicemen and some civilians that actually jieoined the team. trying to get these folks out and it has been a roller coaster