Official Major League Soccer/US Men's National Team Thread

Top 3 baby! That win sets us back on track. After Honduras scored in the 1st half we could have finished as low as a 5th or 6th place this window, but 2nd half got us back to tied for 2nd. Big time 2nd half to end this qualifying window.
 
Is this just the USWNT demanding a cut of the FIFA payouts that go to the men's teams that compete? Sounds like they're gripe is with FIFA who they cannot influence so instead they're going after the USSF.

There is also skepticism about the USSF's motives in pushing for a single CBA. One source, who requested anonymity due to the sensitive state of the talks, stated that the FIFA bonus money issue was being "used as a weapon" against the men's union to make the USSF look like "the good guy."

"The way they want to solve the women's problem is not by increasing the women's income fairly," the source said. "It's by cutting [the men's CBA] down to the [women's] 2017 to 2021 deal numbers."

U.S. Soccer offers men, women identical deals
 

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