Month: June 2019

TYAC Soccer Show: Caitlin Murray on the USWNT

Caitlin Murray, the author of the wonderful new book “The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who changed Soccer”, joins us for a discussion of the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the USWNT.

Kartik Krishnaiyer

In France, women’s soccer readies for its greatest showcase, despite continuing fights for equality off it

Loaded with star power and more competitive than ever, this Women’s World Cup promises to be one of the greatest World Cups ever played. In spite of that, or perhaps because of it, the battles off the field to remedy the pay and working conditions inequities that plague women’s soccer are fiercer than ever.

We preview the tournament, which begins Friday in Paris.

Neil W. Blackmon