The United States Soccer Federation has pledged to pay equal pay for the women’s and men’s national teams in all friendlies and tournaments, including the World Cup. The decision was made after an appeal against US Soccer‘s discriminatory policy was filed by 28 players from the US Women’s National Team.
“It’s perfectly demagogic”, reacted Pascal Praud in Listeners have the floor this Wednesday, February 23. “The recipes are not the same, he justifies. The rights of football in France for men is 700 or 800 million euros, the rights of women’s football are obviously less even if they have increased a lot.” And the host to ask the question: “Is it should we pay women and men according to revenue or should we have an ideological position?”
“If we pay the women as we pay the men, we won’t be able to pay them since there are no receipts”, explains the journalist for whom a solution would be to “pair the two rights and split 50-50but I’m not sure the boys like it.”
“There is equality and equity, according to Pascal Praud. A men’s football match is sold for 3 or 4 million euros on M6 or TF1. A women’s football match is not sold for that price”. “It’s the egg and the chicken, he assures. If you put a match at 10:30 a.m. of women’s football, it will attract fewer spectators than a men’s football match.” And “the justice of the peace is the viewer or the spectator“, he recalls.
