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Carli Lloyd bids farewell with win as US thrash South Korea

Lloyd, a member of two World Cup-winning US teams and a two-time Olympic gold medallist, hugged each of her team-mates as she left the field waving to the crowd for the last time as a US international.

Two-time FIFA World Player of the Year Carli Lloyd retiring after decorated career

Carli Lloyd ranks second on the national team's all-time list with 312 appearances, and fourth with 128 goals.

Firstpost Explains: What is Rule 50 of Olympic Charter and why is there a controversy over it?

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is strictly against any form of propaganda or political statements made during the Games and hence they will be enforcing Rule 50 of their Olympic Charter at Tokyo 2020.

Court dismisses US women’s football team's claims for equal pay; ruling leaves team ‘shocked’ and ‘disappointed'

Judge R Gary Klausner of the United States District Court for the Central District of California threw out players’ claims that they were under paid in comparison with the men’s national team but allowed complaints of unfair medical, travel and training to proceed to trial.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Women's sports likely to be most affected in post pandemic world

Any momentum women's sports in general had worldwide, has seemingly been halted by the pandemic. Now the question is whether women will lose the gains they had made when life returns to normal.

US Soccer apologises for arguments in equal pay case as women footballers hide federation's logo in apparent protest

The increasingly bitter dispute between American women's national football team and the US Soccer Federation spilled onto the field Wednesday night when players wore their warm-up jerseys inside out in an apparent protest before their 3-1 victory over Japan.

World Cup champion US women's football team pushed on equal pay: Could they beat German men?

Lawyers for the US Soccer Federation are trying to show it's OK to pay the women differently than the men because the competition is different. The sides made excerpts of depositions public in court filings.

American women's national team seek more than $66 million in damages from US Soccer over gender discrimination

Players on the US women's national team are seeking more than $66 million in damages as part of their gender discrimination lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation

US men's football team squad blasts national federation, wants women's pay tripled

US men’s national team on Wednesday called on the US Soccer Federation to at least triple the pay of women’s national team players and accused the federation of “working very hard to sell a false narrative” in opposing their quest for higher pay

Megan Rapinoe wins Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of the Year award to cap stellar year

Rapinoe is the first individual football player to receive the honour since the award was first given out in 1954