Players for the US women’s national soccer team appear ready to take their quest for equal pay to court after Wednesday mediation talks with the US Soccer Federation broke down.

“We are very confident that if this needs to go to litigation that we have a great case,” Christen Press said Thursday on “CBS This Morning.” “I think that we will go confidently into that because it’s based on a very simple principle that we think is fair and right, and it is the law.”

In March, the USWNT filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against US Soccer stating it wasn’t paid equally compared to the federation’s men’s team.

US Soccer said in a statement after talks broke down that counsel for the USWNT “took an aggressive and ultimately unproductive approach.” Megan Rapinoe hit back at that assertion.

“That’s not true. That’s definitely not true, and we set the posture as the players in our talks,” Rapinoe said during the television interview. “We came ready and prepared and willing to have the conversation.”

Rapinoe endorsed US Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro during the USWNT’s World Cup victory parade, believing he would “make things right.” Since then, Cordeiro released a letter stating US Soccer paid out more money to the USWNT between 2010 and 2018 than the men’s team, a claim the USWNT believes is misleading.

Rapinoe no longer supports Cordeiro.

“In this moment I don’t, no,” she said on CBS. “I think there’s a long way to go for us to feel that way about him, about the board of directors, about the federation as a whole. [We’re] the only team that they have and they’re the only employers that we have. We’re tethered together, so we’re always gonna be open and be willing to listen to that, but in this moment, no. They didn’t do nearly enough to get to where we need to go.”

Frank de Boer, coach of Atlanta United in MLS, recently said “it’s ridiculous” that women want to be paid as much as men because there are significantly more people watching men’s games. Press wants the federation to align with the USWNT to combat that line of thinking.

“I think we would like to see US Soccer take a stance of leadership on this issue,” Press said. “I think we have an amazing opportunity to change something that has systematically affected women everywhere, and it could be such a positive thing for us to come together and change outdated and honestly wrong opinions like that, and do it in an effort of collaboration and progress.”