Matt Turner of the US celebrates the profitable objective by Christian Pulisic towards Iran on the World Cup on Tuesday.
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Matt Turner of the US celebrates the profitable objective by Christian Pulisic towards Iran on the World Cup on Tuesday.
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Gamers on the U.S. ladies’s nationwide staff have lengthy cheered on their male counterparts. Because of the historic equal pay deal signed earlier this 12 months, they’ve tens of millions extra causes: The 2 squads are evenly splitting the World Cup prize cash they earn.
When the boys’s staff superior to the Spherical of 16, additionally they secured a payout of not less than $13 million. An equal share of that cash will go to the ladies’s staff — a windfall higher than any prize the ladies have gained of their string of event successes.
Below the collective discount agreements the 2 nationwide squads signed with U.S. Soccer earlier this 12 months, the federation will take 90% of the prize cash FIFA pays for the 2022 males’s World Cup — and in addition for subsequent 12 months’s ladies’s World Cup — and divide it evenly between gamers on the 2 groups.
“World Cup winnings have lengthy been thought of the largest impediment to true equality between the US Nationwide Groups,” based on the U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Staff Gamers Affiliation.
The breakthrough association chips away at that impediment, but it surely additionally highlights a telling statistic: By watching the boys advance, the ladies’s staff stands to realize more cash than they have been awarded for profitable the 2 final ladies’s World Cups.
In all, FIFA is doling out $440 million in prize cash to the 32 males’s groups at this 12 months’s event.
FIFA gave out $30 million in prize cash for the 24 ladies’s groups on the 2019 event — far shy of the $42 million the profitable males’s staff will obtain on the 2022 World Cup.
“American ladies acquired a $110,000 bonus for profitable the 2019 World Cup,” the Related Press reported earlier this 12 months, including, “the U.S. males would have acquired $407,000 had they gained in 2018.”
As a part of its equal pay negotiations with U.S. Soccer, members of the ladies’s staff additionally gained $22 million in again pay, ending a lawsuit over the problem. The brand new contracts have been agreed upon and signed after that settlement was reached.
