Canadian Women Striking

[Reccos]

Actually, I've been quite critical of the approach taken by the men as well. And, I've never suggested that there should be "no" compensation; I've suggested that the players could have focused on things like creature comforts, training, etc while also asking that the money they earn get pumped back into the grassroots system.

All we ever seem to hear from either team is complaining. It's usually about money, and it's usually to the effect that more of it should be going into their pockets. I won't apologize for finding it irritating...

The reality is that the CSA signed a legally binding contract that bet against their own national teams. I don't like it any more than the players do. But it's a binding contract and restricts the money available for the players' purposes. Sinc - who I have a ton of respect for - has basically demanded that the contract just be torn up.

Who's in the stone age, exactly?

"All we ever seem to hear from either team is complaining. It's usually about money, and it's usually to the effect that more of it should be going into their pockets. I won't apologize for finding it irritating..."

Your being irritated doesn't put food on women players plates or pay them for lost opportunity doing other work. You have to toughen up mentally!

That was my point in my stone age post. It's not good news for the CSA that the stories are negative for their brand and sports management in Canada as most stories like hockey are negative.

You're not exactly the broadest gauge thinker on TakethePiss if you're not up on how to get around contracts and binding agreements.

 

[Reccos]

The women’s soccer economy is exploding, despite the critics​

SIMON HOUPT
PUBLISHED JULY 16, 2023UPDATED JULY 24, 2023

Some numbers to bolster his position: In 2019, FIFA said 1.12 billion viewers across the globe tuned in to TV and digital coverage of that year’s Women’s World Cup. This year, FIFA is aiming for an audience of two billion.

In March, FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino, announced the prize money for this year’s tournament will reach US$110-million, more than triple than in 2019. He added that he wanted the prize pool for the men’s and women’s World Cups to be equal by the next cycle, in 2026 and 2027.

Last week, Dr. Ann Pegoraro spoke with The Globe and Mail about the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

In analyzing the state of the women’s game, “we’re not necessarily comparing apples to apples, in terms of the development, the investment and the time that’s been given,” to men’s soccer, explained Pegoraro.

“We often compare women’s sport, where they are today, to men’s sport, where they are today. If we compare women’s soccer now to men’s soccer 30 years ago, that would be a more equitable comparison," she says.

The women’s soccer economy is exploding, despite the critics

For the 2022-23 men’s and women’s World Cup cycle, FIFA insisted that broadcasters in some countries bid separately for the women’s tournament

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

[mtkb]

"All we ever seem to hear from either team is complaining. It's usually about money, and it's usually to the effect that more of it should be going into their pockets. I won't apologize for finding it irritating..."

Your being irritated doesn't put food on women players plates or pay them for lost opportunity doing other work. You have to toughen up mentally!

That was my point in my stone age post. It's not good news for the CSA that the stories are negative for their brand and sports management in Canada as most stories like hockey are negative.

You're not exactly the broadest gauge thinker on TakethePiss if you're not up on how to get around contracts and binding agreements.

First of all, don't edit in changes to what I wrote and then present it as if you've copy and pasted. Your first quote is accurate. The second one is not. I didn't say any of that.

Perhaps I need to be blunt. The women's game does not yet generate enough revenue to, writ large, support remuneration akin to full-time employment. It would be wonderful if that changed, but so far women's leagues in any sport in North America have either failed or require significant subsidies from elsewhere.

Respectfully, I'm focusing on the facts, not what I might wish the situation to be. I think your exhortation about me needing to "toughen up mentally" is just a projection...

Finally, there are permissible and impermissible ways to "get around contracts and binding agreements". Dirty pool of some kind in formation of the contract would do it. Re-negotiations between the parties is another (and one the CSA is, I believe, trying).

Unilaterally tearing up a contract because you have buyers remorse is not. And the players? They're at best an interested third party with not a sliver of standing to demand anything...

 

[Regs]

 

[akslop]

 

[Yoda]

 

[mtkb]

I have about as much respect for her as Kap... there's her "equity"...

 

[uniballer]

Canada Soccer to earn US$1.56 million in prize money from FIFA for World Cup showing​

Let the games begin......

 

[akslop]

Canada Soccer to earn US$1.56 million in prize money from FIFA for World Cup showing​

Let the games begin......

Damn I heard it was 2 mil. Wheeler must have got his bonus taken care of first.

 

[mtkb]

what did the men earn? asking for a friend...

 

[akslop]

what did the men earn? asking for a friend...

600% more. Zero wins

 

[mtkb]

how much of that extra money are the men offering the women? asking for another friend...

 

[Regs]

Is this something new? I thought it was well known $30K per player for group stage, ie, just being there.

 

[mtkb]

yes, although a number of federations are apparently having their own issues with the teams and where the money goes...

 

[CJ Mundy]

what did the average Argentinian player take home from Qatar?

 

[CJ Mundy]

or Canadian player for that matter?

 

[Regs]

 

[Regs]

what did the average Argentinian player take home from Qatar?

Prize money was $42M for the Argies, so divide that I guess by the number of players (26 or so?).

France as runners-up took home $30M

 

[Regs]

or Canadian player for that matter?

$9M for the team as a whole.

 

[Regs]

Last 20 years of FIFA WC Prize Money doled out for the men: