Real Madrid, European champions for the past three years, crashed out of the Champions League on Tuesday with a stunning 1-4 home defeat to Ajax, the climax of a week-long collapse in which the club was also knocked out of the Copa del Rey and fell even further behind in La Liga.
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“U.S. women’s fight for fairness puts World Cup in focus” https://in.reuters.com/article/soccer-usa/u-s-womens-fight-for-fairness-puts-world-cup-in-focus-idINKBN1QQ0CL “While some sporting brands used International Women’s Day to launch their Women’s World Cup team kits, lawyers representing the world-champion U.S. team were on their way to a California courthouse to file a landmark lawsuit that would rock the sport.
Instructed by the 28 members of the women’s national team, they filed a suit accusing the U.S. Soccer Federation of gender discrimination, alleging that it pays them less than their male counterparts.