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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They absolutely need better contracts.  Winners deserve bonuses.[/quote]

The Pay to Play contract in the MNT Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) rewards winning.  The issue is that the women wanted guarantees at the bottom end, for which they traded away upside.  Their CBA could have been structured the same way but the players decided against it.

"The history of negotiations between the parties demonstrates that the WNT rejected an offer to be paid under the same pay-to-play structure as the MNT, and that the WNT was willing to forgo higher bonuses for other benefits, such as greater base compensation and the guarantee of a higher number of contracted players," the summary reads. "Accordingly, Plaintiffs cannot now retroactively deem their CBA worse than the MNT CBA by reference to what they would have made had they been paid under the MNT’s pay-to-play structure when they themselves rejected such a structure."

Underlying this, I think, is the fact that women's professional soccer has been very rocky, and so the players don't have a secure paycheck that allows them to go for a high-risk, high reward CBA for the WNT.  THe Women's United league folded in 2003 after 3 years.  Then there was a four year gap, after which  Women's Professional Soccer had a five or six year run, then folded.  The next year NWSL formed, and it is still alive, but they were only 2 or so years in when they negotiated the WNT CBA.

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