After the Chinese women's football team won the Asian championship, the Chinese men's football team was ridiculed. Many of them blind trolls have turned their guns on the wages of the Chinese men's football team, what "they don't deserve to take so much money", "should give their salary to the women's football team", "women's football team with such a low salary but win glory for the country"...
A troll is always a troll, and a ball blind is always a ball blind.
These people may not know that the annual salary of Chinese women's football is already the first in the world among women's football teams in the world. Yes, you heard it right, the Chinese women's football team is really the highest-paid group of women's football players in the world.
According to fifa's statistics released in June 2021, the operating expenses of Chinese women's football clubs are the highest in the world, and the majority of the expenditure is the salary of players.
Previously, there were media reports that in addition to the club's salary bonus, female footballers can also get the national team allowance and salary if they are selected for the national team. The average annual salary of Chinese female footballers is around 500,000, and the annual salary of female footballers at the national football team level can reach 1 million.
The annual salary of the women's football international football team is 1 million, which is also traceable. When Wang Shuang left Tianjin to stay in Paris Saint-Germain, France, the domestic media broke out that Wang Shuang's personal annual salary in China and in France, in China, Wang Shuang's annual salary is 1 million yuan, in greater Paris, his income should be discounted in half, about 500,000 yuan (only 70,000 euros).
Is Wang Shuang's annual salary high? Brazilian women's soccer champion Marta, who has won Miss World Football 5 times, in the women's football world, he is Messi, is Cristiano Ronaldo, her annual salary is 400,000 US dollars (about 350,000 euros). In other words, Marta's annual salary is 5 times that of Wang Shuang.
It seems that Wang Shuang is indeed a little shabby, but don't forget, Wang Shuang is just Miss Asian Football, and Marta is the big sister of world football. It's like the annual salary gap between Son Heung-min and Messi. Previously, Marca had reported that Messi's annual salary was 76 million euros. Messi later joined Ligue 1 and was reported to be paid €41 million a year. Regardless of the version, it is very likely that Messi's annual salary will be above 50 million euros. As a top star in Asia, Son Heung-min has an annual salary of 11 million yuan to renew his contract with Tottenham Hotspur. In this way, the gap between the Asian king and the world king is about 5 times. This is comparable to the gap between Miss Asia and Miss World.
But don't forget, what Wang Shuang uses to compare with Marta is his annual salary in Paris, and if it is compared with her annual salary of 1 million yuan for playing in China, the gap between her and Marta is reduced by half, and Marta is only 2.5 times that of Wang Shuang.
This is also enough to show that the income of women's football in China is actually much higher than the international market of women's football.
So, how does women's football compare to men's football?
Wang Shuang's annual salary in Paris is 70,000 euros, which is her income as a Paris Saint-Germain women's footballer. And what is the income of the Paris Saint-Germain men's footballers? Neymar's annual salary is about 30 million euros, Di Maria and other major annual salaries are more than 10 million euros, Mbappe's previous salary is low, Real Madrid in order to poach him 60 million euros per year, Paris Saint-Germain hopes to retain Mbappe at a price of 25 million euros. Therefore, it can be seen that the average annual salary of the main players of the Paris Saint-Germain men's football team is between 15 million and 20 million euros. Players like Mbappe, Neymar and Messi are certainly above 25 million euros.
That is to say, the income of the players of the greater Paris men's team is more than 200 times that of the players of the women's team.
It can be seen that in the scope of world football, women's football is much lower than the salary of men's football, which is a common phenomenon.
So back to China, we always say that Chinese male footballers make too much money, too much too much, so how much higher are they than women's football?
Take Wu Lei, who also went abroad to study abroad, as an example. As the top player of the Chinese men's football team, Wu Lei's income in China is about 12 million yuan, and Wang Shuang's income in China is 1 million yuan, a difference of 12 times.
It is generally believed that the annual salary of male footballers is very large, and the salary gap between male and female footballers is large. However, comparing the salary income of foreign clubs, such as Paris Saint-Germain men's and women's team players, the salary gap between Chinese men's football players and women's football players is not large, far less than the difference between male and female players in European clubs.
Let's pay attention to the result just now:
Paris Saint-Germain Salary, Men's Team: Women's Team = 200 to 1
Chinese Super League salary Men's football: women's football = 12 to 1
Is there a problem with the Paris Saint-Germain club operating itself? To correct this result, we can also use Marta and Neymar to compare. Marta's salary is 350,000 euros per year, and Neymar's salary is 30 million euros, which is about 85 times the salary ratio.
Look at the U.S. women's soccer team, the captain of the U.S. women's soccer team, and the top player in the women's world, Alex Morgan, who earns $3 million a year, but that's just her total income, most of which is her own business income. And the U.S. women's major soccer league because of the shutdown, its annual salary has been difficult to calculate. However, the Major League Women's Soccer Team has a salary cap, that is, Morgan can not exceed the salary cap of $200,000. The annual salary of the U.S. men's soccer team's signature Pulisic cannot be found relatively accurately on the Internet, but it is not a problem to find the annual salary of the youngster Reyner in the Bundesliga is 2.5 million euros, that is, the annual salary of the American male footballer is more than 10 times the annual salary of the American female footballer.
Therefore, from this point of view, Wu Lei's annual salary is about 12 times that of Wang Shuang, which is also reasonable.
And now Wu Lei stays in Yang, his annual salary is 500,000 euros. Wang Shuang stayed in Yang, and his annual salary was also 70,000 euros. The annual salary gap between them is 7 times different. This is smaller than when he was in China, in fact, it is reasonable, because Wang Shuang is after all the top Asian player in the women's football world, and Wu Lei is only an Asian second-rate player in the men's football world.
The annual salaries of Wu Lei and Wang Shuangliuyang basically represent the basic position of Chinese men's football teams and Chinese women's footballers in their respective groups. Because this salary is not given by Chinese, nor is it what they themselves want. Instead, European professional clubs are judged according to the level, grade, age and other aspects of the players.
Therefore, this annual salary gap is more in line with the law of the market.
Now, the Chinese Football Association is pushing the Chinese Super League salary limit, and the annual salary of local international footballers will not exceed 5 million. It is said that the new round of salary limits may fall to 3 million. If the annual salary of the Chinese men's football team is 3 million, then the annual salary of the Chinese women's football team is about 400,000, which is also in line with the international perception of the annual salary of Wu Lei and Wang Shuang.
Interestingly, the current annual salary of the Chinese women's football team is exactly between 300,000 and 500,000.
Obviously, the Chinese Football Association is an expert in calculating money. Through the stay of Wu Lei and Wang Shuang, through the salary comparison of the Chinese Super League and the Women's Super League, and through a series of calculations such as the ratio of the difference between men's and women's football in world football, the annual salary of the Chinese women's football team is maintained at the current 300,000-500,000, and the men's football salary limit is capped at 3 million, which is a very appropriate salary income.
Having said all this, I actually want to tell you the following points:
1. Chinese women's football is not as poor as everyone thinks
2. The overall income of women's football in the world is lower than that of men's football, and the highest may be hundreds of times worse, and the lowest may be less than ten times. Therefore, it is normal for women's football to earn less than men's football, which is determined by competitive sports itself.
3. The income of The Chinese men's football team was indeed very high before, but the women's football team actually has a bubble, but it is much less than the men's football team, which is basically within the controllable range.
4. Combining the salary treatment of men's and women's football teams in the world football world and various countries and the ability of Chinese male and female footballers, the annual salary of Chinese male footballers does not exceed 3 million, and the women's football team does not exceed 500,000, which is the normal salary range. Don't say that men's football does not deserve 3 million, with or without, this is recognized under the standards of world football. Not to mention that women's football takes 500,000 yuan too much loss, loss or no loss, which is derived under the standards of the world professional football market.
Finally, the most important point is. It is clear that the wage gap between Chinese men's and women's soccer teams is basically reasonable and is on the way to becoming more reasonable. So, the question is, since the gap between men's and women's football salaries is basically reasonable and will be more reasonable, then, where is the problem of Chinese men's football?
Obviously, it's not about the player's salary anyway.