“I’m not gonna lie—it was like feeding from 10 firehoses at once. It wasn’t just, ‘Okay, you’re assuming the presidency’; it was, ‘You’re assuming
the presidency in the middle of a pandemic, the entire sports world is shut down, your country is shutting down, and financially we don’t know where we’re headed.’ So there was a lot
coming at me in a very short period.”
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Cindy Parlow Cone on being elevated to U.S. Soccer president in March following
Carlos Cordeiro's resignation after court
documents filed by U.S. Soccer claimed the women’s national team players don’t possess the same skill or responsibility as their male counterparts. (
Glamour)