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A great turn in the United States, the players of the national team paid like men

2022-05-19T13:46:14.918Z


A long-awaited turning point in a country where football is increasingly popular with girls (ANSA) When the American women's soccer team won its quarter-finals in 2019, one chorus rose up at the stadium: "Equal wages!" for men and women. Two years and several court cases after the US Federation made a historic decision: the players of the selection will earn the same pay and share the FIFA bonuses equally.     A long-awaited turning point in a country where football is increasingly popular with


When the American women's soccer team won its quarter-finals in 2019, one chorus rose up at the stadium: "Equal wages!"

for men and women.

Two years and several court cases after the US Federation made a historic decision: the players of the selection will earn the same pay and share the FIFA bonuses equally.


    A long-awaited turning point in a country where football is increasingly popular with girls.

And a win for the stars and stripes of female soccer stars, Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan in the lead, who years ago launched the battle for equal pay while also recently garnering the support of President Joe Biden who considers equal pay. salary between men and women a priority of his administration.

ANSA agency

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The London tournament was the last to bring down the prize pool taboo.

In Italy, women's professionalism has recently become a reality (ANSA)

To date, US national team players have earned 40% less than their male counterparts.

"No other country has ever done this. We have to be proud, it is truly a historic step," commented US Football Association president Cindy Parlow Cone.

In reality, the United States is not the first country to establish equal pay for female and male players.

Steps forward in this regard had already been made by Norway, Australia and the Netherlands.

But the US is the first to decide on the fair distribution of FIFA prizes after a long negotiation with the men's national team which in the end had to give up.

Despite, in fact,

the American men's team is clearly inferior to the women and has not reached great milestones up to now, the bonuses established for men internationally remain by far higher.

An example: the national team that will win the next World Cup in Qatar will receive $ 42 million.

If the American men's national team manages to reach the round of 16, it will receive 13 million dollars, more than triple what the women's team received by winning the tournament in 2019. The decision to divide the Fifa bonuses in equal parts by the US Football Federation will be in force until 2028 and will cover the next four World Cups.

"Until FIFA put the same prize money for men and women, the only choice we had was to agree between us", explained the president.


    The gap between the earnings of athletes and athletes is a question that has been debated for years in many sports.

Pioneer of the battle were the tennis players in the United States who in 1973, was the era of the great Billie Jean King, obtained the equalization of the final prize at the US Open.

It took 28 years for another Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open, to make the same decision in 2001. In 2007 it was the turn of Wimbledon and a few weeks later of Roland Garros.


    The torch of the battle had been taken by the Williams sisters.

And it was Serena, with the veterans Pam Shriver and Billie Jean, who attacked the Internazionali di Roma this year for the huge difference, more than half, between the prize money awarded to the winner of the men's tournament, 836,355 euros, and the women's one. , 332.260.

The three American champions have launched the idea of ​​creating a union to buy the women's Italian Open and put an end to the disparity even at the cost of transferring it to another city.


Source: ansa

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