The collective agreement is the result of negotiations on equal pay that have been ongoing since 2020 - and it received preliminary approval on Thursday from the trial court in Los Angeles.

The agreement, which will be the first of its kind in the world, will, among other things, mean that women and men receive equal wages and that prize money from the WC is shared equally.

In December of this year, the agreement, which runs until 2028, is to be officially hammered out, but most indications are that it will go through.

"The court's judgment is that the settlement is a fair and reasonable settlement," District Judge R. Gary Llausner said in a statement.

The conflict stretches back to 2016, when the women's national team with stars such as Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Alex Morgan, began to demand equal pay with the men.

In 2020, the association was even taken to court, where in February of this year they reached a settlement and dropped the suit against the players being allowed to share a quarter of a billion and also receive the same World Cup bonus as the men.

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