De Grasse shows support for Canadian women’s soccer team amid labour dispute
The Canadian ladies’s soccer workforce has an enormous supporter of their ongoing deadlock with Canada Soccer.
Olympic champion sprinter Andre De Grasse attended the workforce’s 2-0 opening loss Thursday to the U.S. on the SheBelieves Cup in Orlando, Fla. The Markham, Ont., native says he hopes the dispute shall be resolved in favour of the gamers.
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“I think it’s just really unfortunate to kind of see the lack of equality, especially given how well they’ve played the last couple of years,” De Grasse informed The Canadian Press.
“Hopefully both parties can come to a conclusion and try to work things out and you know, do what’s best for the players, right?”
The males’s and ladies’s nationwide groups are at the moment negotiating labour agreements with Canada Soccer. The ladies’s earlier deal expired on the finish of 2021.
The two groups laid out a listing of grievances in separate open letters posted on social media final Friday — and have been reposted by gamers from each squads. They say each applications are having their budgets minimize and that the ladies will not be being handled the identical manner as the lads.
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The ladies are demanding the identical backing and preparation forward of this summer time’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand as the lads did earlier than their soccer showcase in Qatar final yr. Both the lads’s and ladies’s groups need Canada Soccer to open its books and clarify funding cuts to each applications this yr.
The Canadian ladies boycotted coaching Saturday, saying they might not take the sector until Canada Soccer addressed their grievances. However, the workforce returned to coaching after Canada Soccer threatened authorized motion in the event that they continued their job motion.
De Grasse referred to the experiences of his accomplice — Nia Ali — and the ladies in his life as to why he’s supporting them.
“I have very important women, girls in my life,” he mentioned. “I have my daughter, I have (Nia) who’s a world champion as well. So I know all about the gender inequality that she faces. So I’m just trying to support the women’s team.”
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