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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The FIFA reform committee is set to present its formal proposal next week to the FIFA executive committee, and while most of the attention has gone to governance reforms like term limits and background checks, U.S. women\u2019s players like Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan have gotten behind a push for gender reform led by Australian ExCo member Moya Dodd.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Part of Dodd\u2019s proposal is a requirement that FIFA leadership bodies have at least 30% gender equity, arguing that research shows global companies that meet that standard are less corrupt.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI think it\u2019s amazing that Moya has created this proposal to take to the reform committee, because it\u2019s starting a conversation,\u201D said Wambach, whose final game of her storied career will take place on December 16 when the U.S. meets China in New Orleans. \u201CI definitely back her in this endeavor. So often with equality and especially gender equality issues, women don\u2019t help each other enough. And also, if you\u2019re a firm believer in actual equality from a human perspective, I think men should be a part of this as well.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wambach added that she wants the 30% gender equality figure just to be the start. We\u2019ll find out next week if the reform committee\u2014which has 12 men and one woman\u2014is actually listening. As of now, less than 1% of the voters in the February FIFA election will be women.\r\n\r\n\r\n\t&lt;strong&gt;PODCAST: Giving thanks with a soccer spin&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are more insider notes from around the soccer world:\r\n\r\n&lt;h3 class=\"p1\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are Jermaine Jones's options?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where is Jermaine Jones heading? That\u2019s one of the big questions for the MLS offseason after the 34-year-old U.S. midfielder finished his contract with New England. New England retains his MLS rights, however, and I\u2019m told the Revolution\u2019s priorities are (in order): 1) Keep Jones and sign him to a new contract. 2) Trade his rights to another MLS team. 3) Watch him sign with a team outside MLS\u2014Jones has interest from teams in England, Germany, Mexico and Brazil\u2014and retain his MLS rights by making a qualifying offer.\r\n\r\n\r\n\t&lt;strong&gt;STRAUS: Crew's Finlay travels long road to MLS stardom&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jones, who earned a guaranteed $3.05 million in 2015 (per the MLS Players Union), wants to have a multiple-year guaranteed contract. New England has not made a formal offer, but I\u2019m told Jones is aware of what New England would offer right now (in a ballpark sense) and does not want to accept it. Jones, whose family lives in the Los Angeles area, would prefer to be closer to the West Coast, but one big question is how many MLS teams would want Jones on contract terms that he\u2019d agree to. (Keep in mind, he\u2019s also facing a potential six-game suspension to start the season for making physical contact with referee Mark Geiger in the MLS playoffs.)\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One source says not to expect any resolution on Jones for a while, perhaps until January or even later. He\u2019s being paid through the end of December and has shown in the past that he\u2019s willing to wait to get an MLS deal done. The January transfer window will also give Jones an indication of what he\u2019s worth on the open market internationally.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;h3 class=\"p1\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copa America Centenario details emerge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Copa Am\u00E9rica Centenario is now set for 10 U.S. cities next summer, and details are starting to emerge about the specifics. I\u2019m told MLS will likely not schedule any games during the group stage of the tournament. The draw is set to have four seeded teams, with one of them being the host United States. I\u2019m told the four temporary grass surfaces will be given more time to take root than we usually see during the summer, and organizers are expecting that every country will send its best possible teams.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The biggest question remains Brazil\u2019s Neymar, who will face pressure to play in the Olympics at home in August. A source close to Neymar says he thinks the Barcelona superstar will play in Copa Am\u00E9rica.\r\n\r\n&lt;h3 class=\"p1\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January plans for USMNT, U-23s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The U.S. men\u2019s national team is done for 2015, but plans are already in motion for the annual January camp on the West Coast. I\u2019m told this time there will likely be a mix of first-team players as well as players from the Under-23 national team. There may also be an Under-23 camp after the January camp. The main goal for the U-23s, of course, is to beat Colombia in a home-and-home playoff in March to qualify for the Olympics.\r\n\r\n\r\n\t&lt;strong&gt;BIRD: USA U-23s&amp;nbsp;have last chance to reach Rio&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;h3 class=\"p1\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Bloodbath' of an off-season for middle-tier MLS players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One longtime MLS GM tells me that this offseason could be a \u201Cbloodbath\u201D for middle-class and veteran MLS players making between $100,000 and $250,000. The problem: The new collective bargaining agreement wasn\u2019t agreed upon until March, and the salary budget per team didn\u2019t go up nearly as high as some league GMs were expecting.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a result, several teams had to use far more allocation money than they had planned to get cap compliant in March\u2014and now have much less allocation money than they had expected for next season. (Most GMs plan on how to use their allocation money more than one window ahead.) The longtime GM says to look for middle-class MLS players to suffer and in many cases have their salaries reduced.\r\n\r\n\r\n\t&lt;strong&gt;MLS CONFERENCE FINALS: Timbers 3-1 FCD | Crew 2-0 Red Bulls&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not everyone in the league totally agrees with that assessment, however. Another MLS GM said his team didn\u2019t expect the cap to go up that much and thus doesn\u2019t have a problem with low allocation money. He added that if there are more players than usual in the re-entry draft, he\u2019s hoping his team can benefit from that. A league source did say, however, that he would be surprised if there were that many more players than usual available in re-entry.\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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