Ashine Harris says that “strangeness” made her a football champion

Ashlin HarrisThe World Cup champion twice and Olympian attributes the success she achieved in her sporting career to her strange identity.

“What made me great,” says Harris, 39, says. US weekly On Wednesday, April 30, at the World Citizen Summit is now. “I was very bold, I lived loudly and I was not ashamed of him.”

The former USWnt goalkeeper, who is now working as k Member of the Board of Directors From the human rights campaign, sports fans who are separated from hatred towards the athletes of LGBTQ+ are comfortable in their skin that they are “envious” because they “wish to be able to do the same.”

“I think hate in our society is completely dependent on the freedom that we express every day,” Harris said. “People feel uncomfortable because we can walk in the rooms and be exactly colored and animal. We live our truth more than any society there. This threatens people a lot.”

Harris spoke to a committee at the Citizen Citizen Summit this year called “Beyond the Game: How Leadership Sports Fuel and Learning” alongside sports commentator Katie Nolan And Delta CMO Alicia Telman. While discussing The increasing generation of mathematics This inspires them, and Harris praised the Olympic gymnastics player Simon Bells To defend mental health, saying that she respects athletes who use their platform to support the issue.

For Harris, this reason is fighting for equal wages in women’s sports. She referred to a publication in the Viral Management Chamber Instagram This highlighted the blatant contrast between the emerging WNBA and NBA. The report said Paige BokerzThe No. 1 selection in the 2025 -WNBA draft signed a four -year contract worth $ 348,000, starting at 78,831 dollars in its first season.

“Now compare this to the first comprehensive selection in the American Professional League draft.” we. “A child may be great, I don’t know who he is. I don’t know his name. Most people do not know. Everyone knows who is Paige Poix. He will make, in one game, approximately $ 200,000 – which is twice what you will make in a full season.”

Pointing to the high popularity of women’s sport, Harris now said that these games get “TV categories” and “stadiums sold”. It is time to “money go to the pockets of the players.”

Harris said: “I want these women to be rich – and I don’t feel bad.” “They invest the same time, passion, gravel, and race. They sacrifice everything for their craft. They must be paid.”

Outside the promotion of gender equality, Global Citizen also calls for issues such as ending poverty and improving access to education. At this year’s summit, the organization announced FIFA International Citizen Education FundA new initiative aimed at collecting $ 100 million by the 2026 World Cup final to give children all over the world to reach both classrooms and football fields.

Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen, said, said we. “It harnesses the strength of sport and entertainment to change the world forever.”