PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - The US Women’s National Soccer Team won the Women’s World Cup after defeating the Netherlands 2-0 on Sunday.
This is the team’s fourth championship win with previous victories in 1991, 1999 and 2015.
After another successful season, soccer fans and industry professionals are turning their attention towards equal pay for the US Women’s team.
“Certainly the women’s national soccer team has demonstrated, because of the market value that they bring, the attention and the success that they’ve had, there’s no question that they deserve some level of equal pay because of the market that they are in,” University of Pittsburgh Athletic Director Heather Lyke told KDKA Radio’s Lynne Hayes-Freeland on Monday morning.
“To me, they’ve earned it,” Lyke said. “They represent everything great athletes aspire to be, men and women. So at their level and their sport in that market, I think that equal pay is justified.”
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