Members of Congress Call for U.S. Soccer to Cooperate With Investigation

On Tuesday, Congresswoman Deborah Ross (D-N.C.) and 43 other members of Congress published an open letter to U.S. Soccer calling for the organization’s cooperation with an investigation into systemic abuse across the NWSL. The letter was issued approximately a month after the results of former acting U.S. attorney general Sally Yates’s investigation were released, which found that “abuse in the NWSL is rooted in a deeper culture in women’s soccer.”

Meantime, the NWSL and the NWSL Players Association have been conducting their own joint investigation to assess the working environments of all 12 teams.

Following the letter’s release, Ross said she hopes the progress that’s been made thus far is only the beginning.

“I think it’s good that Congress makes sure that people know we haven’t forgotten about something [after] writing one letter,” Ross said, per The Athletic‘s Meg Linehan. “There actually has been some really good progress made, and we don’t want to take anything away from the progress that has been made.”

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