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Post by Admin on Feb 26, 2021 5:50:01 GMT
USA 6-0 ARGENTINA 1:00 HIGHLIGHTS | Feb. 24, 2021 | Orlando, Florida - Exploria Stadium
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Post by Admin on Feb 27, 2021 4:36:39 GMT
National Women's Soccer League commissioner Lisa Baird has been named to the U.S. Soccer Federation's board of directors, USSF president Cindy Parlow Cone announced at Friday's board meeting. Baird replaces Steve Malik, the owner of the NWSL's North Carolina Courage and USL League One side North Carolina FC, and will take his place on the USSF Pro Council as well. She also increases the level of female representation on the 15-member board to five, joining Cone, former U.S. international Lori Lindsey, Patti Hart and Lisa Carnoy. "I'm excited to join the US Soccer Federation's board of directors as we all work to continue to grow the game here in the United States and around the world," Baird told ESPN. "The partnership between US Soccer and the NWSL has been critically important to our collective success and I look forward to offering my perspective, and that of the entire NWSL, to the pressing questions of the day." The naming of Baird was one of several developments to emerge from the meeting. The USSF laid out its timeline for selecting U.S. venues for the 2026 World Cup. The USSF is currently in what it calls "the information exchange phase," with one-on-one meetings about venue stadium infrastructure set to begin next week. With the COVID-19 pandemic still impacting life in the U.S. and elsewhere, the hope is that in-person visits to candidate host cities will take place later this summer. That will be followed by the evaluation phase with the final decisions scheduled to be completed in December. U.S. women's national team general manager Kate Markgraf announced that the team will play a pair of friendlies outside the U.S. on April 10 and April 13. That gathering will be followed by a four-team Tournament of Nations to be held in the U.S. in June. The team also has a pair of send-off games planned prior to the team's departure for the of the Olympics in Tokyo. That tournament is scheduled to begin on July 21. U.S. men's national team GM Brian McBride laid out the team's full schedule. It includes a previously announced friendly against Northern Ireland on March 28. McBride said that a second friendly, scheduled for March 25, is in the "final stages" of being arranged. McBride added that a pair of friendlies will bracket the semifinals and final of the CONCACAF Nations League in June, with one friendly scheduled for May 30 and another after the tournament set for June 9. The opponents were not revealed. The Gold Cup is scheduled to run from July 10 until Aug. 1, with World Cup qualifying set to begin on Sept. 2.
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Post by Admin on Mar 2, 2021 5:02:37 GMT
Paralympian Seth Jahn was removed from the U.S. Soccer athletes' council on Sunday after he made a racist speech in support of the infamous anti-kneeling rule, which was officially repealed on Saturday.
The athletes' council released a statement on Sunday about Jahn's comments and their decision to remove him from the council.
At least two-thirds of the council voted to remove Jahn, determining that his comments had violated the "Prohibited Conduct Policy's section on harassment."
What did Jahn say? Before the athletes' council voted on Saturday to affirm the repeal of Policy 604-1, the controversial anti-protest rule that was established in response to Megan Rapinoe kneeling in support of Colin Kaepernick, Jahn made remarks in support of the policy and made it clear that he did not want it to be repealed.
Jahn, a 38-year-old Florida man who represented the US at the 2015 Parapan American Games on the seven-a-side team, spoke for several minutes and used numerous racist, white supremacist talking points, and argued that peaceful protests "taint" the sacrifice made by military members.
Via the Associated Press:
“I’m sure I’m going to ruffle some feathers with what I’m about to say, especially given the athletes council that I’m on, but given the evolution of our quote unquote, progressive culture where everything offends everybody, those willing to take a knee our for anthem don’t care about defending half of our country and when they do so, then I don’t have too much concern in also exercising my First Amendment right,” Jahn said before the vote. “We’re here to get a different perspective. I also feel compelled to articulate that I’m of mixed race and representative of undoubtedly the most persecuted people in our country’s history, Native-Americans.”
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