U.S. womens soccer team demands equal pay after winning world cup

[i_am_a_champ]

We had this discussion here a couple of months back. And the consensus was the women's team is more popular than the men's team so they should be getting paid more.

I don't watch soccer but I always remember seeing women's highlights and nothing about the men except them losing.

No one cares or bothers to watch womens world cup.

The actual real world cup has been going on close to 100 yrs now

Its a global event.

Bigger draw
More awareness
Just bigger

Floyd gets the dollars cos hes the biggest draw

[PACnPBFsuck]

But the US men's team ain't winning that so how you're basing their pay against the men's teams of other countries when they're saying pay us as much as the US men's team? Does the world cup determine the pay of the winners or does the country determine the pay of the winners?

How far did the US men's team get in the last world cup?

US men's team didn't even make it to the show, but I think our national teams get paid by CONCACAF unless they make it to the World Cup, then they get paid by FIFA. I think that's how that works, i'll check.

[Motorcity Cobra]

You're a no brainer

Womens doesnt make as much as the men

Maybe us women's is more than us men's

But the issue is women's world cup winner vs men's world cup winner

Think before you start to type, dumbo

Did I say more than the men's world cup or more than the US men's dumb ****?

Secondly i don't even watch this bull**** sport. Imagine watching people kick a god damn ball around the field for four hours. Only losers with no life like you watch this boring ****

[i_am_a_champ]

Somebody posted this topic earlier this year and the people who watched soccer said the women's team is more popular and generate more revenue. This is a no brainier and not even a men vs women thing to me. If these were WNBA players I'd tell them to sit down and shut up.

The world cup is not just about americas team.

If americas womens team is more popular than its mens team on a global scale it means nothing to the rest of the world and fifa

Womens football is less popular than mens

Simple

[DuckAdonis]

Cringe,

It has been illegal to pay women less since the 1960's. The wage gap is a myth

[Motorcity Cobra]

US men's team didn't even make it to the show, but I think our national teams get paid by CONCACAF unless they make it to the World Cup, then they get paid by FIFA. I think that's how that works, i'll check.

Ok well that makes sense. I thought they were wanting to be paid more than the US men's team by the US soccer association

[giant_king]

I respect women but they have to look at the business side of sports.like the wnba for example.you can't demand a equal salary when people aren't attending the games as much as the men's NBA.less attendance equals less revenue.when u watch a the wnba u see alot of empty seats.fill them seats up then demand equal pay.

[PACnPBFsuck]

Ok well that makes sense. I thought they were wanting to be paid more than the US men's team by the US soccer association

Okay, so I just found that FIFA distributes $400 million to the 32 teams that made it, depending where they finished in the standings. Plus they have to pay the clubs where these guys play.

So using that same logic, the women get to share $30 million, I could see them getting an increase, but equal pay to the men's WC, it won't happen.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...yers/12532323/

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The most valuable and expensive World Cup ever will earn billions of dollars for FIFA, millions for the competing countries and thousands for the more than 700 players selected.

From its near $4.5 billion in revenue from broadcasters, sponsors, hospitality and licensing deals, FIFA distributes just over $400 million to the 32 national federations taking part in the tournament.

Here is how some of that money breaks down:

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FIRST PRIZE This is from 2014

The winner between Germany and Argentina in the final will get $35 million in prize money paid to its national federation, which can spend the money as it chooses.

That's $5 million more than the $30 million Spain took home from South Africa four years ago.

The runner up gets $25 million (up from $24 million in 2010), while the third- and fourth-place teams get $22 million and $20 million, respectively.

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PLAYERS' SHARE

FIFA lets national federations choose how to reward the 23 players on their squads.

The German federation last year promised all 23 players a 300,000-euro ($408,000) bonus for winning a fourth World Cup title.

That is the equivalent of a few weeks' basic wage for the German players who are employed by wealthy European clubs like Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

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PRIZE POOL

Prize money for the other 28 federations who are eliminated before the semifinals stayed at the same level as in 2010.


Quarterfinalists get $14 million, round of 16 losers get $9 million and those which failed to advance from the group get $8 million.

How do they spend it? Four years ago, FIFA acknowledged it did not know if the $8 million paid to North Korea would stay within football there.

In addition, FIFA paid $1.5 million in advance to each of the 32 federations to prepare for the tournament — an increase of $500,000 from the 2010 tournament

That should have helped pay for training camps before arriving in Brazil and settle some player bonus issues which have traditionally dogged World Cup teams, especially from Africa.

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PAY TO PLAY

As usual, problems over paying bonuses exposed the financial problems of African federations and a fundamental distrust many players have for elected football officials.

Three of the five African teams — Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria — were distracted by payment issues.

Cameroon's squad arrived a day late after refusing to board a plane, forcing their federation to take out a loan to ensure players got paid.

Ghana's government flew in $3 million in cash — after Brazil's government waived laws on moving currency — to avert a threatened strike by players who were reportedly promised between $75,000 and $100,000.

Nigeria players canceled a training session before its round of 16 loss against France to ensure its bonus payments were upheld. They were promised $10,000 each for every group stage win, and could have earned $102,500 in total for winning the title.

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FIFA PROMISE

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said it was "sad" that bonus issues distracted from the football.

He pledged that, in the future, FIFA will seek written agreements from federations that players are contracted to receive their money before arriving in Russia in 2018.

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CLUBS' SHARE

Clubs who released the 736 players taking part in the World Cup will also get their share of FIFA's revenues.

FIFA has set aside $70 million to distribute at a rate of $2,800 per player per day that each was on World Cup duty. The money is shared between each player's current club and any other he played for in the two previous years during qualification matches.

[FinitoxDinamita]

Tell these nasty dykes to do simple math. They dont put up enough ratings or asses in the seats to demand equal wage as men.

What a joke..

[JERMELL_CHARLO_]

Good luck with that lesbos.