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 and they give you a few small facts. U. S. Soccers writing campaign is the reason women soccer was admitted to the olympics in 1996 and continues to this day. We are the top 18 in the world by far on the womens side. In 2003 with a host the womens world cup there were no winnings for any team, first second third, fourth. This time is 2 million could be continued to push fifa in the right direction. Related to your direct question if that was 2014 i dont have the exact numbers in front of me. Could be id be more than happy to follow up and provide in writing, it could be because of the 2014 mens world cup is a peak year and would create more dignity. It is what i was sent to be adjusted in a sense of investment hopefully we will invest in a womens soccer program. The mens program is growing significantly. We are so proud of what the living dead and one and make sure we continue to invest appropriately. As father of three daughters we are quite proud unfortunately failed professional Womens League three years ago we took it upon herself to the federation. We actually run the Womens League. Rather than fund 25 to 30 women and cut the team down to 23, we are providing a First Edition womens Soccer League for 180 womens professional soccer players in this country and we think with the success we had in canada 10 days ago that it will have additional ownership and investment as well. We are about out of time. Thank you for that reply. Senator klobuchar. Thank you to all of you. I want to follow up on senator klobuchar questions. We are all proud of the u. S. Womens team. Are you aware we are putting together a resolution asking for equal compensation between men and women in fifa soccer . I was not aware of that. Be ready for it. Given the u. S. Emerging role in fifa and given what weve seen in the last few years with corruption, while i appreciate you say changes are being made i dont think enough changes made. I have additional dollars from a senator daines is talking about. The u. S. Womens team is compensated 2 million. Is that right . Thats correct. The mens team and 2014 compensated 35 million. I think it was 32. So it is 2 million versus 32 million. The losing team at 8 million. I believe it was 9 million. 9 million. Okay. We have a situation where the losing team cup four times the amount of money than the winning womens team. Let me point out the winning just as the point of reference the winning payments go to the federations. So the payment to our players are guided and governed in agreements between the men and women. That is one point as a matter of background thats important. Sometimes they say womens sports dont get as much attention. We have a situation here where there is record attendance and tv ratings. Fox broke tv records in the u. S. Making the World Cup Final the mostwatched soccer telecast ever in the u. S. Male or female. And yet you had this disparity 32 million versus 2 million. That argument would be the u. S. Should be taking the lead in pushing quality here. In tennis they have a quality. Promoted last year decided to have a quality of prizes. Wimbledon seems pretty old school and soccer was supposed to be so nouveau and types and the core progressive sport and yet you have this disparity that i think its outrageous. We do agree and we will continue to push for greater payments on the womens side without question. I really appreciate that. Could you comment on why the world cup was played on artificial turf in the mens world cup was played on grass. Ill give you a little background. For canada to receive the bid, senator, they went through a process. Canada was the only nation that submitted a bid to host. As part of debate from our point of view unfortunately it included playing on artificial services. It is not something we like. We appeal to fifa in the Canadian Soccer Association to no avail. When our players came to us and wanted to participate legally in the day, we that. At the end of the day we posed the question to her womens team. If this is what we are faced with do we want to move forward and play or do we not want to play . The women unanimously decided its not perfect. We dont like the lack of respect but we were moving forward and the menu is extensive and says were pretty happy we move forward under some not rest of circumstance is but coming away with their third world cup was worth the investment. The salary range of women and men. The men may mens salaries is 3000. 50,000 for a male player. I am not sure what the references for that. This is professional soccer. I cant speak to Major League Soccer starts with the Reference Point is that thats collected by a bargaining agreement. The womens National Team players to play in our league is well above 6000. Into play for their country as well as their clubs as well above 6000. Id be happy to follow up and give you more detail on that. Going back to the corruption and everything thats happened and my colleagues have done a good job. Im sure theres a lot more mr. Jennings would like to talk about going through all that as a former prosecutor im glad the cases are pursued. It seems in general the region i bring up the womens issue is the u. S. Has a shorter history that has significant internationally Major Corporate sponsorships of u. S. Companies. So what im advocating here is using that for a noxious reforms and the and the International Governance structure that we dont see the corruption and that it gets taken care of but also so women get treated fairly and equally as men. If they can do it at wimbledon, they can do it with soccer. Thank you senator. Can i make one point . For womens soccer in the world just as a point there were 24 teams in this years world cup. 2011 there were 16. We were strong advocates and took a leadership position to expand. The mens that has 32 teams that compete. A greater number of games and a bit of a different commercial impact. We continue to push fifa to expand opportunities for women and as a father with three daughters, rest assured it is top of mind with me every single day. You can imagine the women and how we feel when our women players that everyone was watching got less than a fourth of what the losing team did last year for the men and its just not right. It has been in the public debate, but the women are playing in the world cup in competing this year will receive 300,000. Id be more than happy to give you additional information. Thank you to all of you and senator leahy is winning the resolution. Senator club which are klobuchar, thank you. You heard the testimony of mr. Flynn as he is involved in the domestic side of the issues involving the u. S. Soccer federation. I think his testimony would reflect that he and his colleagues, no one reported concerns our knowledge of corruption, bribery, racketeering and i think his testimony would suggest he had no he was unaware of the activity that led to the indictment. That suggests to me and i dont know what mr. Flynn does, that he is the ceo. What is it that needs to change structurally that this kind of behavior at fifa would be known by the u. S. Soccer federation . What is missing . Thank you for the question. You have to understand the nature of the beast. Fifa was like no other organization that had an opportunity to consult with on issues related to government compliance. I want to correct the statement mr. Bery said earlier. It is not an ngo. Its not a corporation. It doesnt follow any guidelines or standards. What it simplifies is a small clique, powerful individuals who sell feeling was kept very secret at the top level of the organization. It is no surprise to me that an individual Federation Like the u. S. Soccer federation didnt know, didnt understand what was going on. The organization has pointed out by the Justice Department had systematic corruption. And for years now for over 10 years in the midst of many scandals in going back before 10 years when mr. Jennings was aggressively reporting on microtrains. See an accountability the organization answer to one man and one man alone and not men control the organization with an iron vest and an iron grip. That was the president of the organization, says blatter. When he wanted someone to know something, he would let them know. Otherwise they would be in the dark. It is discouraging to me that president blatter sits in the same seat today. Let there be no mistake. He has not resigned. He has said he will step aside when a new election is called. He has said twice in the past in recent history that he would not run for office again and change his mind. I am very concerned he will do the same thing again for six months from now he will say the Reform Initiative is now complete. I succeeded in the federation from africa, federation survey ship want me to continue so i decided to stay as president. That would be the worst thing that could happen for fifa. Mr. Hirschman in your opinion your testimony is the best thing that could happen to cleanup ftse is for the departure of mr. Blatter . Not only mr. Blatter. There are executives who dont believe in reform. Let me say this. We are going to see next week at the executive committee meeting, Fifa Executive Committee meeting adopt the reforms that we recommended years ago to be adopted and were put aside. It is not what is on paper. It is not the Compliance Program for the change in government berkshire. It is the culture of the organization that has changed but you cant have a change in culture unless you have people in the leadership that believes in ethics and values. What is the motivation for the change to occur . What needs to happen through the u. S. Soccer federation, others around the globe. Does it have been a consequence on the issue because i assume the opponent to change is financial. There is apparently significant amounts of money that surround fifa and those involved in what you describe is culture. What steps need to be overtaken today, tomorrow in the future. Number one the sponsors have got to take not only the sponsors, big media outlet on media rights have got to take a stand. When an individual athlete, the attacker was for ray rice do something wrong, the first thing that happens is that walks away from that relationship. Scandal after scandal after scandal in no sponsors have taken the lead in withdrawing support based on the scandals. Sponsorships and Media Outlets have got to stand up and say if you dont reform, if you dont do the right thing we will walk away. The u. S. Soccer federation has got to come together. Those with similar beliefs and transparency and accountability and i do believe that is the belief that the u. S. Soccer federation has got to come together from the bottom up and force change at the top and finally government provide sustenance to sports federations. Not necessarily in the United States that oversees government spend taxpayer money supporting their organizations. Theyve got to intervene and let them know the time is ripe for change even here in the United States while they dont spend taxpayer money on supporting our domestic sports organizations we provide them with tax exempt status exemptions from antitrust laws and so governments have got to influence rights organizations to undertake transparent accountable governance. Let me ask you mr. Jennings what needs to transpire . What needs to transpire today tomorrow that would give you hope that the corruption you have described would be resolved internally within fifa and perhaps a laser based upon your testimony is fifa has no future it has to be with lace. Is that different from what mr. Hirschman is saying . Yeah fifa has to be dissolved. They dont want reform. We despise her perform. Got arrested, went home for years as members of his family got off the operation went on. I am quite astonished at what i hear. That would be the third one because when mr. Blazer and mr. Warner were out they had reform meetings. They placed transparent they and two men from the corrupt Sports Marketing company in a few years later the fbi. So now they are doing it again. Horse corral a man to put a scarf framing to those in the congress in a team 98. They are so corrupt. The uss communities they federation has been cowardly. Not a powerful country had the guts to stand up and say jack warner is stealing tens of millions of dollars of trade to money that should be supported in the caribbean. He had the guts to say it. Warner and place are turned on him. He just survived that he had the courage to do it. Where was america . Let me ask mr. Flynn in your testimony had just made note so this wont be identical to what you said. Your testimony was you could encounter a potential political impact that you indicated you oppose the reelection of mr. Blatter. You indicated the u. S. Soccer federation posed voted for someone other than mr. Blatter to chair. Your testimony had something along these lines that could cause potential political impact and chances to host the world cup. That suggests to me that there is an awareness that the decision about where he world cup soccer matches going to be played, you would admit is not necessarily based upon the merits. If you are worried about a vote for the chairman of fifa have been a consequence on site selection, that suggests to me that you are aware something is not above the board. I think it reflects a management style. That is what i was trying to impart. Mr. Blatter yelped as others have said a lot of influence in the organization and taking our position to not position to battle the vote open that could nominate prince ali had worked hard for a selection. We know that many, if difficulties down the road in terms of seeking support for hosting the 2026 world cup as part of the management style. Thank you mr. Chairman. Mr. Jennings, would you agree based on your experience that american corporate sponsors like nike nick donald, fifa and cocacola have bad in some sense into you players . Theyve had terrible attacks when the rest of the world has been categorizing listing corruption and documented. We only support the world cup. We dont support fifa. Maybe i should have my question that they would be enablers now. They should withdraw unless the money should be withheld until something radical happens for an interest of the grassroots. There is precedent, for example in the way that an aikido but tiger woods following the regulations and Public Disclosure thats a very limited case. Weve got huge for both the because it dealt with the private life of a celebrity and a lot of tabloid coverage. Private life and morality or in this instance public corruption should be addressed. Admit that capacity. They have the brains and the experience to chicago and they havent done anything. They should be apologizing because mr. Flynn has talked a lot about the organization of american folk all. Not particularly relevant to the issues at hand about corruption or fifa. Nevertheless, the moms and dads my granddaughter plays football in the park in seattle. You know the sort of people im talking about. Not just the stars of the teams they have been betrayed by an organization with the glamour of the brilliant by name and then doing better at every world cup youd notice. Without actually doing it to say we are america. Mr. Bery, which are the Great American corporate sponsors have turned a blind eye to feel like human rights abuses and potential death of Migrant Workers involved in Human Trafficking and the world cup host nations should they have known . Questionstion mark should they have done something . Of course the answer is yes. Mr. Bery. There is definitely been a startling lack of attention by many parties involved with fifa and the world cup to be Serious Problems of labor exploitation today. Thousands upon thousands of foreign Migrant Workers are forced into a terrible terrible system that can lead up to forced labor in some cases and it is time for the sponsors of the world cup. It is time for the contractors and businesses involved as well as the host government at all to start taking action in doing something about the way price crisis. They can have an impact by virtue of their power of the purse and dollar investments. The sponsors of the world cup can play a serious and constructive role in averting the labor rights crisis happening in the next placation spiking the world cup in 2022. Do you agree . I do agree. Look the sponsors spend tens of billions of dollars to protect their brands. They themselves adopt governance programs and compliance with the best practice recognize globally. What does it say about them and theyre willing to partner with organizations that have the record the fifa has. Mr. Flynn, do you agree with the views stated here . We are happy to have the sponsors weigh in on this particular issue. As the point that is worth making from the perspective when these things come to light we have spent a lot of time a sponsors explaining the difference between u. S. Soccer and fifa and the sponsor welcome the opport