Soon after the release of the Yates report, USSF announced plans for implementing Yates's recommendations. Among its next steps, USSF stated its intention to mandate "a uniform minimum standard for background checks for all US Soccer members" and to publish soccer records from SafeSport's Centralized Disciplinary Database to identify individuals in soccer who have been disciplined, suspended, or banned. "The findings of this report are devastating and infuriating," US Soccer president and former USWNT player Cindy Parlow Cone wrote on Twitter. "They lay bare the systemic failures within soccer that must be corrected if we are to be a safe, welcoming place for athletes at all levels. I'm deeply committed to change."
