US women soccer players want equal pay to US men's team.

Yes, much of the rest of the world is equally imprecise. I know I will not change things but I very much prefer accuracy to vagueness.

 

Then you should always specify to WHICH United States you are referring, since there's a pretty big one on the same continent as the one in which you reside.

US is ambiguous to your very own standards.

 

I had no idea the official name of Mexico is “the United Mexican States” until I read this post and looked it up. Thanks for learning me a thing!

 

NID, I'm pretty confident you made this up. Please prove me wrong with a link.

 

So you want us to spend hours, on top of the hours some of us have already spent on the subject, investigating something that we suspect is fabricated. Yeah, I'll pass.

Quoting for irony.

 

This is one of the few arguments that I am convinced 100% drains intelligence from the internet rapidly without a single valid angle.

Canadian players and fans are not American. You can tell us differently, but you are still wrong.

 

You're making the assertion. At least name some examples.

It's much easier to prove this is true than to disprove it. If it's true, you should be able to name a few examples quite quickly. If it's not true, then disproving it requires examining the structures of 200 federations, because even if someone examines half of all FIFA member federations and finds zero nationalized federations, there will still be a hundred more that haven't been looked at.

 

Canada Soccer propose equal pay deal

 

lol...the american virus is spreading

 

Looks like there nose deep in the woke coke

 

And what's wrong with equal pay? I have no issue with that. Hopefully the players get what they want.

 

Man this anti woke stuff is on this message board too? ☹️

 

Yeah. US Men's players are in tears, absolutely drowning in them, over the shrinking of a one-time bonus that they have no guarantee of ever receiving (since it's tough to make a World Cup squad). Despite the fact that their club contracts and career earnings far surpass what any of the Women are able to get and turn a one-time bonus like this into a pittance, they are basically catatonic right now. The Men should be fighting to the death for these bonuses!

If people think that USSF's money needs to be re-directed away from players? That's fine, though rather curious and convenient since I suspect a lot of the people, though not all, who make this argument only started making it in the last few years.

And if other national teams in the Western world see dissension because of the US example? Good.

 

Why not pay janitors the same as doctors? Or WNBA players as much as NBA players?

 

Congratulations on defeating an argument almost no one here has made.

 

It matters because despite all of the bitching in this thread and on the Internet about this topic, the players have certainly come across as absolutely fine with the course of events.

 

Shucks, interested parties have interests! Go figure.

 

It's different though. The international teams are gonna give these players more attention than their clubs. I'm not saying they should get equal pay for club. And that janitor to doctor example makes no sense my dude

 

This was never about equal pay. They wanted a taste of the men's world cup money. Which is a significantly higher payout than what the women get. They were in a politically advantageous position to negotiate for it and so they did. Originally they wanted the USSF to equalize the payments to what the men's World Cup winners get. The USSF wouldn't be able to cover those payouts. And no sponsor was willing to give it to them. They then wanted the USSF to sue FIFA for equal pay. With the USSF bidding to host World Cups, that was a non-starter. The men were willing to acquiesce to the women on splitting payouts 50/50 and so here we are. The first time the men get a cut of the women's World Cup money, shit's going to hit the fan.

 

You accidentally'd a pretty key word there.

 

The women's game is growing so I have no issue with players getting more pay and attention.

 

These are all different jobs. The janitor and doctor example underscores that point. You bring up attention, but the guys get a lot more attention than the women, which is why they generate a lot more cash.

 

Nothing is Hitting the fan. Stop overreacting

 

The shit never hits that fan until it does. With the way the women have waged this negotiation so publicly, to think there wouldn't be a vocal opposition would be sticking your head in the sand.