Women's League and market

The Professional Women's Soccer League (League F) was a posthumous legacy of Irene Lozano, who announced it when she said goodbye to the CSD.

She was accompanied for the occasion by Vice President Carmen Calvo, also outgoing.

She joined her desire to leave a visible imprint of her fleeting stint at the CSD, beyond the fictitious

, with the nobler desire to give a decisive boost to women's football as a conquest of symbolic value.

A generation ago football was, in Spain and almost everywhere, an exclusively male territory.

Happily, for some time now, women have been climbing positions in everything, and soccer could be considered, as far as sports are concerned, as the last

to be crowned.

But on the one hand there is the purpose, on the other the market.

Our women's football is still not dragging, despite the fact that Gol took it to homes not long ago.

Almost all the big clubs already have a team and Barça has even won the Champions League, but beyond great assistance at zero or symbolic cost on certain days, the following is still small, as are the resources it generates.

The official existence of an F League leads to misunderstandings.

The structure has not been put in place by the clubs, which for the most part were content to live under the tutelage of the men's LaLiga, but by the CSD advancing 17 million for the first three years in addition to a contribution of 16 the first of them for facilities.

Quite an effort by the State if one takes into account that the annual allocation of basic sports such as athletics or swimming does not reach 5 million a year... and they also have women.

But the CSD had to honor the commitment that Carmen Calvo and Irene Lozano left on the table.

DAZN will offer the transmissions and puts 7 million, which is not bad if you think that the First RFEF does not even reach half.

But the rights of men's football in Spain are 1,900 million, what a difference.

Lockers are practically non-existent.

For this year, 8 million are expected from a sponsor that the referees' strike put in danger, because nobody wants to associate his image with a fight.

In short, the real income is 7 + 8 = 15 million, plus some advertising bits that pinch the clubs.

The total does not reach half of what you move.

The rest is state subsidy or loss of the clubs involved, which do it out of social awareness and in the hope that it will take effect.

In that context you have to see that strike by the referees, actually a blow from Rubiales.

Annoyed because the F League was founded outside the walls of the Federation, he has handled with an obstructionist spirit what he had at hand: the referees.

In the end, it has been resolved with 25,000 euros for the main one and 14,000 for the auxiliary ones, allowances and separate trips, plus a fund for the day of their retirement.

Congratulations to the beneficiaries, but the minimum salary for soccer players is 16,000 euros.

Some earn more, but in that amount it moves like half of all of them, and in fact the average is 22,000.

So the soccer players earn less than the referees.

With that reference they will face the next agreement and we will see what happens then.

In the F League there are 16 clubs, of which 5 are

, that is, they are not sections of a big club, and they make balances to pay.

For the other 11, the section supposes a deficit that is more affordable the richer the club is and the less the more the thing gets entangled.

So I fear that the Rubiales rematch is going to create an inflation with unforeseeable consequences.

This is a three-speed League, with the big three at the top, the five

at the bottom and a middle class of 8. Ideal breeding ground for fragmentation.

In such an unbalanced environment and without a tradition that defends it, there is indeed the temptation of a European Super League in which Madrid, Barça and Atlético obtained better income leaving the rest to hover.

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