The U.S. Women’s soccer team is fighting for the right to get equal pay or close to equal pay to the Men’s Soccer Team. This week President Barack Obama shed some light on the topic of equal pay and said, “It’s the idea that whether you’re a high school teacher, a business executive or a professional soccer player or tennis player, your work should be equally valued and rewarded, whether you are a man or a woman.”

The women have won the world cup 4 times, 3 gold medals at the Olympics and consistently are in the top 2 in the world for Women’s Soccer. The men’s soccer team has barely seen the semi-finals at the World Cup.  Even including the semi-finals of the World Cup in 1930, they’re consistently outside of the top 20 in the world and not even considered top 2 in the their region. The only reason Americans have respect in the International game abroad is because of the success of the women’s soccer team.

These women are great examples to young women soccer players around the world. There are strong, persistent, and the shining light for U.S. soccer, the only reason we have credibility as a nation. Equal Pay? The women generated $20 million more revenue than the men’s national team.  

Should the female players have equal pay?

Bob Jones girls soccer sponsor Mary-Katherine Graf said, “Considering the women have won a World Cup recently and the men have never won a World Cup, I’d say that’s a pretty fair suggestion.”

Also, Bob Jones girls’ soccer captain, Hannah Earnst said, “Men can lose a game and still make… more than if the women win all their games.”

These players make women’s soccer entertaining. Women often don’t get the credit where credit is due because of the slower pace, which is often criticized by viewers; however, their positioning, first touch, finishing, creative ability, and their overall soccer IQ is on par with male players.

These women are pushing to change the game of women’s soccer and the first push for change in US soccer as a whole. They are pushing for the right to be equal and show FIFA that women work as hard as the men.