1. U.S. Soccer responded to the complaint filed by 28 U.S. women’s national team players in U.S. District Court for theCentral District of California that U.S. Soccer has engaged in gender-based employment discrimination in violation of the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Citingdifferences in the law and the facts of the case as presented by the players, U.S. Soccer argues that it obeyed the law and didn’t economically discriminate against women’s national teamplayers. In part, the response tries to explain away disparities in pay on the basis of fundamentally different working environments with separate collective bargaining agreements for the women’s andmen’s national teams that compensate the players according to different pay structures.

2. PRO agreed withColumbus Crew coach Caleb Porter that referee Ted Unkel erred when he used VAR to overrule an opening goal by the Crew in its 3-1 loss to D.C. United. Unkel ruled that Crew midfielder Wil Trappfouled D.C. United’s Luciano Acosta as he got in their way before Trapp played a pass to Pedro Santos, who scored. PRO determined the incident should not have been recommended for Video Review as thedecision to play on was not a clear and obvious error, the threshold for VAR intervention, and — further — Unkel should have determined that no foul had been committed in the attacking phase of playso the goal should have stood.

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