The U.S. women’s national team took their dispute with U.S. Soccer to a new level as five players — Hope Solo, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and AlexMorgan — filed an action with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, charging the federation with wage discrimination by paying them far less than the men. It set […]
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What They're Saying: Sunil Gulati
“Given the legislation, I’ve asked the people who handle our games to reconsider. We think the legislation in the year 2016 goes far beyond anything that is appropriate in trying tobalance the positions of religious organizations and the long, hard-earned rights by the LGBT community and others.” — U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati on staging […]
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Gulati is just where he needs to be
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) By all accounts, Sunil Gulati, president of U.S. Soccer, played a pivotal role in the election ofGianni Infantino as FIFA president. If you watched Fox Sports’ wall-to-wall coverage of Friday’s FIFA Congress in Zurich, you’d have watched via the “SunilCam”Gulati arguing projected vote totals on the executive committee stage with Sheikh […]
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What They're Saying: Sunil Gulati
“Two hundred and nine countries vote in the next go-round. It’s going to boil down to what people think of U.S. foreign policy. … Do they like what our country stands for?” — U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati, speaking at New York’s Regis High School, a century-old Jesuit school where he coached soccer more than […]
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Behind FIFA's urgency to make a World Cup 2026 bid decision
One of the first things to go when the FIFA crisis hit last year after the arrests of seven FIFA officials and Sepp Blatter‘s decision to step down was the World Cup 2026 hosting bid process,which was put on hold. One of the first things new FIFA president Gianni Infantino plans to do is relaunch […]
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Gulati or El Amrani for FIFA secretary general?
One of the first tasks of new FIFA president Gianni Infantino will to select a new secretary general, who in the new FIFA structure will hold even more power than predecessors JeromeValcke and Sepp Blatter. All that is known is Infantino does want a European. At an event earlier in February, Infantino suggested a possibility […]
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USA switched to Infantino in second round
U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati confirmed that his organization switched its vote from Prince Ali of Jordan to Gianni Infantino in the second round when Infantino pulledaway from Sheikh Salman of Bahrain to win the election for FIFA president. “We decided to support Prince Ali last night and made that public. I met with Gianni […]
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Jeffrey Webb hired private eyes to snoop on Sunil Gulati
In the most detailed investigation into the years after Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer were ousted from Concacaf, Bloomberg reports that Jeffrey Webb, Warner’s successor aspresident, spent the confederation’s money freely, leaving it dangerously short of funds when he was arrested in May on corruption charges. Webb, who has since pleaded guilty and is awaitingsentencing, […]
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U.S. Soccer keeps choice for FIFA president close to vest
U.S. Soccer’s five-person delegation, led by president Sunil Gulati, heads to Zurich for Friday’s FIFA presidential election without having declared its choice. The New York Times reports,though, that U.S. Soccer will vote for either Prince Ali bin Al Hussein (whom it voted for in the May election won by Sepp Blatter) or Gianni Infantino, the […]
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The FIFA election, the sanctity of the secret vote and case against ballot selfies
In nine days, we will know who the next FIFA president is, and given the reputation of soccer’s world governing body, doubts about the integrity of the election are running high. If youwere wondering, the election for FIFA president will be conducted by secret vote. Not all FIFA-related elections are by secret ballot. When Sunil […]