Women's Soccer Champion Recalls Playing for Just $10 a Day

  • Former player Kristine Lilly discusses pay, travel conditions
  • TV exposure, corporate support are needed for further growth

Kristine Lilly plays in 2010.

Photographer: Donald Miralle/Getty Images 

The U.S. women’s soccer squad is favored to win this summer’s World Cup, and players are finally beginning to gain the kind of media exposure and endorsements that men’s teams have taken for granted.

But it’s been a long road.