After the Chinese women's football team won the 2022 Asian Cup in India, a wave of women's football teams was set off in China, with overwhelming praise and sponsors flocking to it. The fighting spirit of the Chinese women's football team that is not afraid and does not give up has touched many people.
At the same time, because the Chinese men's football team lost to the Vietnamese team on the Spring Festival day, it was not only criticized, but also used as a background board for the Chinese women's football team. Some people have even suggested that women's football is worthy of a high salary, and men's football kicks so badly, what kind of sea cucumbers do they eat?
In people's minds, China's women's football players have been living a less prosperous life, even a little miserable. Is this the case? Compared with the men's football team, their income is indeed much lower, and only a few people can reach the annual income of one million, and more than 2 million is even rarer. And the men's football team, when the salary limit was not started in the previous years, a U21 player who can register in the first team of the Chinese Super League can get two or three million annual salaries. Even in the champions league, there is an annual salary of 500,000.
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On February 10, according to the "Football" report, the income of women's football players is roughly the same, the annual salary of international footballers generally exceeds one million, and the annual salary of non-international footballers who can play the main force in the club is about 300,000 or 400,000 yuan, and the newcomers who cannot play the game can only get a few thousand yuan of monthly salary. It can be said that the income of women's football is not low, after all, the world ranking of Chinese women's football is only 19th, and the income of international footballers can be.
It's just that men's football revenues are really high. In the eyes of fans, its income is not worthy of the level, which is also true.
"Football" reported that with the support of sponsors, female footballers have subsidies when participating in national team training, which add up to even higher than the income of new internationals in the club. In this case, some women's football internationals joked that it is best to train all year round.
In addition, the income gap between women's and non-international footballers is larger, and proportionally speaking, it is much larger than that of men's football.
Fans pursue the Chinese women's football team, valuing the spiritual strength they show on the field, but talking about spirit should also talk about materials, and looking at the performance of male football players in the national team and in the club team, this is actually a question worth thinking about: Is their performance in the club better than in the national team?
As we all know, the Football Association has offered a prize of 6 million yuan for the national football team to participate in the round of 12, which seems to be a huge amount of money, but for the male footballers, it is really nothing. They have earned more prize money at the club.
For a male football player, is there a situation where he can't work hard when he arrives at the national team, afraid of injury and delaying the return to the club to earn money? When the income difference between internationals and non-internationals is not very large, and they can make a lot of money by casually mixing in the club, do the players still have upward motivation? This is worth exploring.