U.S. national team goalkeeper Hope Solo took to Twitter to show her concern about the field conditions at FAU Stadium for Wednesday night's match against Germany. U.S. Soccer said the Aloha Stadium surface was ''not suitable to hold an international soccer match,'' while the players pointed to inequality between field standards for men's and women's games. A group of players, led by U.S. forward Abby Wambach, filed a legal complaint in Canada before the event, claiming that playing on what some consider an inferior surface amounted to gender discrimination, because the men's tournament is held on real grass.
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