Hope Solo to object to U.S. Soccer equal pay deal
Goalkeeper Hope Solo will object to the U.S. Soccer Equal Pay Act and is asking the Congress to review its constitutionality.
(AP) — Hope Solo says she has objections to the Equal Pay Act, which would prohibit U.S. Soccer from paying the women’s national team’s head coach while she was out of work and without salary.
Solo says the Equal Pay Act amounts to gender discrimination. She claims she has earned $800,000 in national team head coaching roles and another $350,000 in consulting roles since she joined U.S. Soccer in March 2008.
Solo is asking Congress to review the constitutionality of the Equal Pay Act, but the National Women’s Soccer League has opposed any such move, saying the women’s team is not an “employee” of the U.S. Soccer Federation.
Solo is one of three Americans to be named coach of a World Cup women’s team since 2000, the others being Julie Foudy and Hope Powell. In 2013, Solo was part of the team that reached the quarterfinal stage.
U.S. Soccer has had several women’s team coaches in the past who were not paid salaries, including Julie Foudy, who was a volunteer player for the 2000 team and stayed as head coach when the U.S. finished in ninth place in the 2002 tournament. Foudy had earned $55,000.
The women’s team has been without a head coach since 1991 with the last women’s coach, Debbie Barker, leaving in 2008.
(AP) — Hope Solo says she has objections to the Equal Pay Act, which would prevent U.S. Soccer from paying the women’s national team’s head coach while she was out of work and without salary.
Solo is one of three Americans to be named coach of a World Cup women’s team since 2000, the others being Julie Foud