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Off the field, Rapinoe has led the team in their fight for equal pay and treatment to the men's team, which did not qualify for the last men's World Cup. The USWNT has a tentative agreement to enter mediation with the U.S. Soccer Federation over a gender discrimination lawsuit they filed this spring.

She also has advocated for LBGTQ rights as one of the most prominent out athletes in professional sports.

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“Coming from that very honest and authentic place and being able to find a way to put that on the page, I think will make a very lasting book,\" Ann Godoff, president and editor of chief of Penguin Press, told the New York Times.

Penguin has also signed Rapinoe on to write a book for students of middle and high school age with a goal of empowering them.

Rapinoe told the Times her overall message will be that, \"We can change the world in one generation, and have one hell of a time doing it.”

ABC News' Alexandra Svokos contributed to this report.

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