Landmark legal win compensates pregnant soccer player who lost contract‎

In a landmark legal win for female soccer players, sport’s highest court has awarded Maja Göthberg salary compensation from Lazio Women after the Italian club ended contract talks when it knew she was pregnant. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ordered Lazio to pay Göthberg more than 70,000 euros ($79,000) in salary compensation and “infringement of her personality rights” including 5% interest for the past two years, in a verdict published Wednesday by the global players’ union FIFPRO.