What They're Saying: Cindy Parlow Cone

• by Soccer America , Jul 20, 2020

“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.”

-- 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)