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Lyon didn't pay her pregnant, Juve player wins cause

2023-01-19T14:47:12.880Z


Fifa final ruling. Icelandic Bjork: "No more blackmail" (ANSA)


A goal against prevarication and prejudice: it was ideally scored - with a hypothetical bicycle kick - by the Juventus Women player, Sara Bjork-Gunnarsdottir, 32 years old.

The Icelandic athlete has won the case against Lyon for the failure to recognize the entire salary that was due to be paid during her pregnancy.


    Having become pregnant in early 2021, Bjork-Gunnarsdottir had turned to Fifpro to appeal to Fifa.


    The organization that manages football in the world has established that the club must pay the amount, equal to 82,094 euros.

"I'm finally telling my story after getting pregnant in Lyon, the treatments I received during my pregnancy and my return to the field," the footballer said via social media on the day when, after the deadline for a possible appeal, the sentence it has become permanent.

"I was entitled to my entire salary - he explained via twitter -: this cannot be contested even by a big club like Lyon. This is not 'just a business'. It concerns my rights as a worker, as a woman and as a human being. The victory is bigger than me. It is a guarantee of financial security for all players who want to have a child during their career."


    It is a historic success, which projects the women's football movement towards the conquest of new goals on the rights of female athletes.

Last May's ruling came directly from the Fifa Dispute Resolution Chamber, which forced Lyon, Bjork-Gunnarsdottir's former team, to pay 82,094.82 euros as residual compensation and 5% of accrued interest between 10 September 2021 and the date of payment of the amount due.


    The FIFPro union of footballers and female footballers prof.


    announced the end of the case which, in the absence of an appeal by Lyon, ended with the FIFA ruling.

Rewinding the tape, and retracing the stages of the long soap opera, it must be said that Bjork-Gunnarsdottir had been signed by Lyon, the most successful women's soccer team in Europe, on July 1, 2020 and signed a contract until June 30, 2022.


    At the beginning of March 2021 the news of the pregnancy had arrived, which the footballer communicated to her club after about a month.

Sara had kept the news to herself until she was able to train and play.

After reporting the news of her pregnancy to the club, she was released from team activities and allowed to spend the rest of the season in Iceland, to stay with her family and receive the necessary assistance.


    It was at that point that she noticed how Lyon had stopped paying her regularly: from April to June, in fact, only small percentages of salary had been paid to her, while the Fifa regulation on contracts for the category provided for the payment of the entire salary for the duration of the pregnancy until maternity leave.

She pressed for pay, but the club replied that there was nothing wrong with the non-payments.

Hence the decision to contact Fifa, supported by the FIFPro union, despite the fact that the club had already let her know that - in the event of a dispute starting - there would be no more room for her in the team.

The Icelandic had received up to that moment 27,427 euros of the 111,000 provided for in the contract for the period between April and September 2021. She asked for and received,


    "My son is now almost a year old, I now play for Juventus and I'm very happy. But I want to make sure that no one ever has to go through what I went through again - added the Icelandic in an article published on The Player's Tribune website - Now I want Lyon to know that what happened cannot be considered acceptable."

Source: ansa

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