No matter which country's football team, there seems to be a common problem: the gap between men's and women's football treatment is too large.
Take our country, according to xu yuan, the former captain of the Chinese women's football team, "At present, the salaries of our top female football players can reach more than 1 million, and most women's football salaries are pitifully small!" ”
And the mainland's men's football team, casually has millions of income, and what does not match is that the women's football team has repeatedly won the championship in the competition, and the men's football team has lost again and again, and finally lost to the Vietnamese team?
This phenomenon of unequal pay for equal work also occurs in the United States, but the men's soccer team in the United States is very strong.
Recently, the U.S. women's national soccer team reached a landmark settlement with the U.S. Soccer Association. The signing of this agreement solved the problem of gender discrimination between the U.S. men's and women's soccer teams, and the pay gap between the men's and women's teams was also revisited, and finally the U.S. women's national soccer team successfully made a claim.
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, Feb. 22, that the U.S. women's national soccer team included star players Megan Rapino, Alex Morgan and 26 others. After the agreement is signed, they will receive a collective income of $24 million.
Megan celebrated the signing of the agreement in a statement, saying it was a "huge victory" for her team and for female athletes around the world.
She said: "It's going to be an incredible moment. When we look back, we can say that this sport of football has changed forever because of us, American football has changed forever, and the pattern of football in the United States and the world has changed forever. ”
This settlement is really hard-won for the women's soccer team. It also marked the end of a historic lawsuit, with the U.S. women's national team making headlines in 2019 for filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Association in March, just months before the FIFA World Cup in July.
In their lawsuit, the U.S. women's national team accused the U.S. Soccer Association of paying women far less salaries than the men's team, even though they won one game after another with a brilliant record of victory.
U.S. women's national soccer is one of the best in the world, winning several Olympic titles, winning world cups in 1991, 1999, 2015 and 2019. In addition, the U.S. women's national soccer team won four Olympic gold medals.
In the settlement, the U.S. Soccer Association will pay $22 million to 28 players and set up a $2 million fund for women's soccer.
Although the signing of this agreement is already very difficult, some players have demanded that the U.S. Soccer Association pay $67 million in damages. The U.S. Soccer Association has also agreed to pay the same amount of tournament fees to men's and women's teams in the future.
U.S. Soccer Federation president Cindy Palo Cohen, a former member of the women's national team, was delighted to learn of the reconciliation, saying she hoped the football association would "rebuild" its relationship with the women's soccer team.
She said: "I will be the first to admit that the FA has made mistakes in the past, but as a former athlete, I understand the frustration of being treated like this... But I'm really proud of the moment. ”
For our country, although the men's football team, which has been defeated again and against by the whole people, has been reduced in salary, but now the men's football team still has millions of incomes at the lowest, and what about our women's football team?