Ago they called in senator mitchell and ken dubestein to investigate where they had gone wrong with the ioc and make recommendations. External respected, nonpartisan investigation. This committee to help u. S. Soccer set up a similar independent committee to find out what on earth has gone so badly wrong and it being covered up. Also u. S. Soccer could do what your government does, which is put everything online. The forms are inadequate. And then renew, reorganize and reinvigorated soccer could say to the world this is how it does. We are not in america pushing around but we can do it. It is all wide open. Join with us and the 209 National Associations would come with you finishing. Next monday, the absent mr. Gillaspie, who i think is treating you with contempt and the u. S. People of soblger, the men and women and the whole sport with context when he cant come here and defend the u. S. Soccer activities in concocaf and fifa. So hes going over to zurich next week with a private meeti
Deep in april of 13. We think that was a step in the right direction, a step towards reform and that is the model that is in the best interest of moving our sport forward in a very difficult and tricky environment. One final question and i will wrap up here. Back on womens soccer on a happier note the most match soccer match in u. S. History as game seven world series. I was looking at the financial numbers here with the United States soccer federation. Looking at the investment Amendment National team versus the womens National Team as the father of two sons and two daughters. You see where im headed with this good spending of the mens National Team is up 50 fiscal 14 over 13 yet the spending for women soccer went down 13 of fiscal 13 versus 14. In Broad Strokes of many reasons women soccer went up 50 in women down 13 . Let me first say thank you for your comment about the womens National Team. We are proud of our track record with womens soccer. We are recognized as a world leader an
Concerns. It would be hard to pinpoint. Theres generalities and theyre related to the point in which they ran their meetings and how i think u. S. Soccer would be like to have a greater influence but being one of 35 voting nations and mind you mr. Warner came from the caribbean and 25 of those 35 votes are from the caribbean. It gave me a level of discomfort that we werent going to make progress in terms of transparency and some things i would have preferred as to how u. S. Soccer operates. Did you express those concerns to mr. Blazer . I did not. Any reason you might not have confronted him or asked why hes doing what hes doing . Generally speaking we have the potential to opt out and with mr. Blazer i just felt we had other things to do that could help build our sport as well and there was some concern that if i brought it to mr. Blazers attention i may feel a level of discomfort in other ways. Did you see peers feel discomfort in other ways in order to confront mr. Blazer . It would
The potential to opt out and with mr. Blazer i just felt we had other things to do that could help build our sport as well and there was some concern that if i brought it to mr. Blazers attention i may feel a level of discomfort in other ways. Did you see peers feel discomfort in other ways in order to confront mr. Blazer . It would be hard to categorize it that way. When we reached out to talk to other National Associations, other federations once again we were one of 41 or 35 voting members and there wasnt anybody else that had the same level i did as an organization. Once again were in concacaf by virtue of being a member of fifa. We felt we had to find a way to participate and work our way through. Fortunately by a close vote, 18 to 17 he was elected to the seat in april of 2013 and we think that was a step in the right direction and a step ward reform. And that is the model that we felt was in the best interest of moving our sport forward in a very difficult and tricky environment
Categorize it that way. If and when we reached out to talk to other National Associations, other federations, once again, we were one of 41 and one of 35 voting members and there really werent anybody else there wasnt anybody else that had the same maybe the same feeling that i did on a personal level or that we did as an organize. So we operated as best we could within the framework. Once again, were in concacaf by virtue of being a member of fifa and we felt we had to find a way to participate, work our way through and fortunate enough by a close vote, 1817, mr. Gillatty was elected in april of 13 and we think that was a step in the right direction, a step towards reform and that is the model that we felt was in the best interest of moving our sport forward in a very difficult and tricky environment sometimes. I have one final question and then ill wrap up here. Back on womens soccer here on a happier note, the most watched soccer match in u. S. History, as Many Television viewers as