The US ladies’s soccer staff, a four-time World Cup champion, is profitable on the males’s World Cup, too.
Because of new labor agreements reached with U.S. Soccer that assure a break up of prize cash gained by the nation’s nationwide groups, the ladies will obtain an equal share within the prize cash from the efficiency of the U.S. males in Qatar. How a lot cash? No less than $6 million thus far, or greater than the mixed prizes the ladies’s staff collected for his or her 2019 World Cup victory in France ($4 million prize) and their 2015 title in Canada ($2 million).
In September, the U.S. ladies’s and males’s groups formally signed new collective bargaining agreements with landmark phrases: For the primary time, U.S. Soccer assured the gamers will obtain equal pay for competing in worldwide matches and competitions, which had been one of the contentious points dealing with the groups and the federation lately.
Meaning the ladies’s nationwide staff may even profit from the boys’s development on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, in figures {that a} spokesperson for the ladies’s staff stated the gamers are nonetheless digesting — however which have given the ladies’s staff, and its predecessors, a way of accomplishment and development in a decades-long pursuit of fairness within the sport.
“The ladies have carried out their work — 4 World Cups, 4 Olympic gold medals — to deliver excessive visibility, and I imply excessive visibility, to the game of soccer on this nation, which wanted it for a very long time,” stated Briana Scurry, a goalkeeper for the Individuals’ 1999 World Cup-winning staff. “Now the boys, as soon as once more, it’s their flip they usually’re displaying extremely effectively.”
FIFA beforehand introduced that the whole prize pool for the World Cup in Qatar can be $440 million, together with $42 million for the profitable staff. For advancing to the knockout stage of the event, after a 1-0 tense win over Iran, the staff stands to earn not less than $13 million. A win in opposition to the Netherlands on Saturday might elevate that determine to not less than $17 million.
Below the brand new agreements, 90 % of World Cup prize cash shall be pooled and shared equally between the gamers on the 2022 males’s World Cup roster and the 2023 Girls’s World Cup roster, in a historic transfer that’s distinctive solely to america amongst prime soccer-playing nations.
The sharing is reciprocal: When the ladies defend their World Cup title on the 2023 Girls’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, any earnings shall be break up with the boys’s staff.
“These agreements have modified the sport ceaselessly right here in america and have the potential to alter the sport world wide,” the U.S. Soccer President, Cindy Parlow Cone, stated in a press release when the agreements had been reached in Might.