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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The USWNT and USMNT will split the prize money earned at the tournament equally, less a 10% cut for U.S. Soccer. With the Round of 16 exit, that equates to $1.46 million each.

That is significantly less than the $5.85 million per team earned from the USMNT’s round of 16 exit at the 2022 men’s World Cup.

In others words - men brought in 7 million more and are subsidizing the women's team. [/quote]

Yes, so what? Lots of new things are subsidized for a time to allow for growth.  It’s called investing. Sometimes the growth happens sometimes it doesn’t but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad investment or shouldn’t be done.

Nearly every college sport, men’s and women’s, is subsidized by football. Should colleges stop subsidizing swim teams and wrestling? All high school sports are subsidized.

There’s an argument to be made that uswnt bring in goodwill for us soccer, are more talked about (controversy sells), more recognizable players, and sells more merchandise.

Why is it important to you to show that men are helping support the women as if that’s a bad thing. As a man with a daughter i’m proud to help support the women’s game
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DP just stop. The women’s argument was they were bringing in more money vs the men’s and not getting their fair share. The men missed the world cup and brought in 2% less vs women in one cycle. Every other cycle the men brought in more money. It was all just BS. It was never an honest argument. The pay system was different(women got a salary vs men a game check), women were not watched outside of the US, the NWSL is barely financially viable, etc.

The money now goes to the same 23 players who are getting the USWNT salary. Women’s soccer is bigger vs just the USWNT.  There is actually less money going to development of female youth soccer and the pay in the NWSL is low(except for the USWNT players). This drives many out of the game.

US Soccer also dropped DA because of the USWNT players’ lawsuit. There was just no way to balance expenditures with so many more boys playing vs girls. Now there is no other path but ECNL. ECNL is good for college but that era of development has passed. You need to continue development over u15. [/quote]

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