There's a reason why the United States women's national soccer team is so incredible.
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00:00The women in the United States have been at the top of the FIFA rankings for years and years.
00:20The mentality in the United States is different than in Europe. It's the mentality of appreciating the winners.
00:50Most countries don't have the opportunity for women to play competitive soccer once they get beyond grade school.
00:55The women in the United States have been at the top of the FIFA rankings for years and years.
01:05The mentality in the United States is different than in Europe. It's the mentality of appreciating the winners.
01:15I don't go into a game and go, like, thank you, Title IX, but the fact that I get to do what I love and I've never been questioned whether I can play soccer or basketball or softball or whatever,
01:26the fact that I've never been told I can't do that because I was a female just means it means a lot to me and means it's really special.
01:45The women in the United States have been at the top of the FIFA rankings for years and years.
01:55The mentality in the United States is different than in Europe. It's the mentality of appreciating the winners.
02:06Across the nation, the red, the white, the blue, the USA Sensation is coming after you.
02:18Not only have they captured our imaginations, they've definitely stolen our hearts.
02:38And by creating the largest women's sporting event in history, they have exploded the myth once and for all that women's sports can't attract fans and public attention.
02:50And it is about time that that has happened.
03:08The U.S. men's team, they get a higher per diem when they're on the road, they get better transportation accommodations, they get better hotels, and they get a little bit higher pay.
03:26And the women are saying, wait a minute, we're the world champions, the three-time world champions.
03:30We actually got the highest TV ratings in the history of U.S. for soccer, 27 million people, for the last World Cup final.
03:37The women are saying, we attract eyeballs too, and they want to be paid equally for their work.
03:43I guess incremental change is better than none at all, but for the resources and for the ability that I feel like FIFA has to implement that change, I think that they're not doing nearly enough.
04:06Every event will help springboard our sport onwards.
04:10I think little girls are going to be sitting in South Africa, in Brazil, and they're going to see this, and it's going to obviously influence the whole world's game.
04:20It's awesome.