Sports company Adidas announced on Friday that its sponsored players on the winning 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup team will receive the same performance bonus as their male counterparts. “We believe in inspiring and enabling the next generation of female athletes, creators and leaders through breaking barriers,” Adidas head of global brands Eric Liedtke said in a statement. ‘Institutionalised gender discrimination’ The announcement comes just hours after it was revealed that all 28 players of the US women’s football team — currently the world’s reigning champions — are suing the US Soccer Federation (USSF) for “institutionalised gender discrimination.” The lawsuit , filed on International Women’s Day, seeks equal pay and treatment as the male team. “Despite the fact that these female and male players are called upon to perform the same job responsibilities on their teams and participate in international competitions for their single common employer, the USSF, the female players have been consistently paid less money than their male counterparts,” the lawsuits states. “This is true even though their performance has been superior to that of the male players — with the female players, in contrast to male players, becoming world champion,” it adds. The US male team failed…