Players Tribune Quotes

Cuando Halliday todavía dirigía la empresa, GSS había logrado que prevaleciera el derecho a no desvelar la identidad de los usuarios de Oasis tras un fallo histórico del Tribunal Supremo. Cuando

They brought in players from other national teams around the world, including Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and others to sign a letter asking FIFA and the CSA to reconsider using artificial turf. When that didn’t work, they filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, arguing the decision to play the tournament on artificial turf was gender discrimination under Canadian law. After all, no men’s World Cups had ever been played on artificial turf, and the upcoming men’s tournaments had been planned to be on grass through 2022.

On April 8, 2005, the federation announced that Greg Ryan would become the new head coach and dropped the interim tag. Players suspected it was a power play by U.S. Soccer. When the hire was announced, one player anonymously told the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Mark Zeigler: “The federation wants to show us who’s running the show.” Hope Solo later said: “It seemed to me that Greg was a pawn in a power struggle.” Robert Contiguglia admits he hired Ryan on April Heinrichs’s recommendation. Some players, declining to speak on the record, long suspected that was the case—they are convinced that Heinrichs knew the players didn’t want Ryan for the job and that he wouldn’t be a good fit. Recommending him was a final dig, they believe, in the back-and-forth between the players and the coach they had butted heads with for nearly five years.