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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading the actual complaint by USWNT players is very instructive:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5763925-C-D-Cal-2-19-Cv-01717-1-0.html[/quote]

Interesting that the women get paid more vs the men because US soccer does not pay the men. It seems the men would only get more money if they won the World Cup(or advanced the QF). I guess this is just a negotiating tactic because the NWSL would fold without those payments to the big name women players. [/quote]

What are you talking about? US Soccer does pay the men to play on the national team.[/quote]

So it is a little more complicated. US soccer pays the women national team members to play in the NWSL- ie stay in form. The men are not paid to play soccer during the year by US soccer. This is outside of international games.

[quote]The U.S. Soccer Federation’s relationship with the National Women’s Soccer League has long been complicated. On the one hand, the federation is the reason the league came to exist in the first place in late 2012, and its financial and operational support is undoubtedly one of the main reasons the NWSL is in the middle of its sixth season — twice as many campaigns as each of its two predecessors.

Inversely, the league provides a key development ground for new national team talent, as well as helping keep veteran national team stars in top playing form during the long breaks between international matches.

However, U.S. Soccer’s heavy involvement has also long meant that the league has collectively been at the mercy of the federation, [b]which pays the salaries of the core — and most in-demand — U.S. national team players, as well as the league’s small front office. U.S. Soccer public records list NWSL expenses at $2,390,703 for fiscal year 2017.[/[/b]quote]

https://equalizersoccer.com/2018/07/13/non-allocated-players-at-center-of-growing-nwsl-uswnt-tension/

So the US men get paid more for the international friendlies, qualifying games and the World Cup vs the US women. The last men’s World Cup’s winner France received 38m and the US Women received 4m. The women walked away with 200k for the World Cup plus 60k for a six game after tour. If US men had won(lol) they would have gotten 1.1m. It seems the women get a larger percentage of the prize vs the men but the men’s purse is close to 10 times the women’s. The men had problems qualifying- ie got nothing for the World Cup.

I bet the US men would like US soccer to pay them outside of international games like the women. The question is can US soccer could afford to pay the women the same as the men and continue to pay the women yearly? What would that mean the for NWSL? Also watch how the players start to take a nicer tone with the federation. The federation could and will move on from the older (maybe the more out spoken) women- ie you are off the team and will not receive the yearly pay.

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