prize money does depend on sponsors, but fifa reps have made it significantly clear that they don't give a fuck because the women haven't earned it yet:
This was something admitted by FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, who has said that women cannot expect to be paid the same as their male counterparts for many World Cups to come.
"The comparison between the prize money of the men's World Cup in Brazil to the women's World Cup in Canada, that's not even a question I will answer because it is nonsense," he said.
"We played 30th [Men's] World Cup in 2014 and we are playing the seventh women's World Cup, so things can grow step-by-step.
"We are still another 23 World Cups before potentially women should receive the same amount as men.
and I'm in the US, so we were saturated with coverage - which is a plus for the US because we are desperately clawing to ensure that the NWSL remains intact. this is their third attempt to make a women's pro league work here in the US, but I have lots of issues with the whole college/drafting system that really makes it difficult. my cousins in Mexico are in the DF right now in our old neighborhood and they said everyone in their area was watching & talking about the WWC. idk how much it was but it was enough that they got a good group of 50+ people to watch at a block party - even after Mexico was eliminated.
I always feel bad that more people don't try to show support for women's so the narrative is that the US women are really brilliant & yadda yadda (which they are), but our domestic league is struggling so hard to keep going. I mean, the minimum salary is $6,842 (6,174 in Euros), while the maximum salary is up to $37,800 (34,114). And they have salary caps of the higher $200,000 for most players.
the point is people should make attempts to generate interest. women's football is never going to be equal to men's because people just don't want to care. which is why coverage is minimal/barely growing.
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Date: 2015-07-06 04:41 pm (UTC)This was something admitted by FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, who has said that women cannot expect to be paid the same as their male counterparts for many World Cups to come.
"The comparison between the prize money of the men's World Cup in Brazil to the women's World Cup in Canada, that's not even a question I will answer because it is nonsense," he said.
"We played 30th [Men's] World Cup in 2014 and we are playing the seventh women's World Cup, so things can grow step-by-step.
"We are still another 23 World Cups before potentially women should receive the same amount as men.
and I'm in the US, so we were saturated with coverage - which is a plus for the US because we are desperately clawing to ensure that the NWSL remains intact. this is their third attempt to make a women's pro league work here in the US, but I have lots of issues with the whole college/drafting system that really makes it difficult. my cousins in Mexico are in the DF right now in our old neighborhood and they said everyone in their area was watching & talking about the WWC. idk how much it was but it was enough that they got a good group of 50+ people to watch at a block party - even after Mexico was eliminated.
I always feel bad that more people don't try to show support for women's so the narrative is that the US women are really brilliant & yadda yadda (which they are), but our domestic league is struggling so hard to keep going. I mean, the minimum salary is $6,842 (6,174 in Euros), while the maximum salary is up to $37,800 (34,114). And they have salary caps of the higher $200,000 for most players.
the point is people should make attempts to generate interest. women's football is never going to be equal to men's because people just don't want to care. which is why coverage is minimal/barely growing.