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The U.S. women’s team is going home early, but they still made history.

The U.S. women’s soccer team was knocked out of the 16th round of the
Women’s World Cup by Sweden during a penalty shootout on Sunday. It was
the American team’s earliest-ever exit from the tournament. But despite
not winning the title, the women are bringing home their biggest payout
ever of $3.25 million.

In addition to the women’s team’s award for reaching the knockout stage,
they settled an agreement with the U.S. Soccer Federation in 2019 that guaranteed the women’s and men’s national teams equal pay. The two
American teams will split their prize money equally from their respective
World Cups. And under the same agreement, the players receive 90% of their payout, while the federation keeps the remaining 10%.

All in all, the U.S. women’s team made $7.3 million from the 2022–23 World
Cup cycle.

After ending 120 minutes of play at a 0-0 draw, the U.S. and Sweden faced
off in a penalty kick shootout. Megan Rapinoe, who is known for being
deadly in shootouts and has also been on the forefront of the fight for
equal pay in the sport, shot the ball over the net, meaning the U.S. was eliminated 5–4.

Former President Donald Trump, who is battling three separate indictments
while running for reelection in 2024, commented on the team’s performance
on his social media platform, Truth Social, blaming Megan Rapinoe and “wokeness” for the failure.

Trump wrote, “The 'shocking and totally unexpected' loss by the U.S.
Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to
our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden. Many of our players were
openly hostile to America - No other country behaved in such a manner, or
even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to
Hell!!! MAGA"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-women-soccer-team-earns-202726199.html

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