Women’s team players ask FIFA for equal World Cup money
The international skilled soccer gamers’ union says it despatched a letter signed by 150 ladies’s nationwide workforce gamers to FIFA calling for equal World Cup prize cash.
FIFPro confirmed that the letter, which additionally asks for equal therapy and circumstances for ladies’s groups enjoying in soccer’s most prestigious match, was despatched to the game’s worldwide governing physique in October — a month earlier than the beginning of the boys’s World Cup in Qatar.
The Women’s World Cup is about for this summer season in Australia and New Zealand.
“We can confirm a letter signed by 150 players from national teams on every continent was sent to FIFA in October. These players are seeking equitable conditions before the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. FIFPRO is currently negotiating with FIFA on behalf of these players,” FIFPro stated in an announcement to The Associated Press. The Wall Street Journal was first to report the existence of the letter.
FIFPro didn’t share a duplicate of the letter and stated it couldn’t remark additional, as negotiations are ongoing. The names of the gamers who signed the letter additionally weren’t made obtainable.
FIFA didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Wednesday.
The transfer comes as there are rising requires FIFA to make the prize cash for the 2 tournaments extra equitable.
Argentina earned $42 million for profitable the boys’s World Cup in Qatar, out of a prize pool of $440 million. In distinction, the U.S. ladies’s nationwide workforce gained $4 million out of a prize pool of $30 million for the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France. The prize pool for the ladies’s match this summer season has not been set.
Under their historic collective bargaining agreements reached final 12 months, the U.S. males’s and girls’s nationwide groups will equally share the prize cash gained on the World Cup after U.S. Soccer takes a proportion off the highest.
U.S. Soccer is at the moment the one federation that evenly distributes World Cup prize cash. The Canadian ladies’s nationwide workforce has known as for the same provision in ongoing negotiations for a brand new labor settlement with Canada Soccer.
The Women’s World Cup, which begins on July 20, has an expanded subject of 32 groups, up from 24 in France. The 2019 match drew a worldwide broadcast viewers of greater than 1 billion viewers.
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