The worldwide skilled soccer gamers’ union says it has despatched a letter signed by 150 ladies’s nationwide workforce gamers to FIFA calling for equal World Cup prize cash.
FIFPro confirmed that the letter, which additionally asks for equal therapy and circumstances for ladies’s groups enjoying in soccer’s most prestigious event, was despatched to the game’s worldwide governing physique in October — a month earlier than the beginning of the lads’s World Cup in Qatar.
The Girls’s World Cup is about for Australia and New Zealand from July 20-August 20.
“We are able to verify a letter signed by 150 gamers from nationwide groups on each continent was despatched to FIFA in October,” FIFPro mentioned in a press release to The Related Press.
“These gamers are searching for equitable circumstances earlier than the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup. FIFPRO is at present negotiating with FIFA on behalf of those gamers.”
The Wall Road Journal was the primary to report the existence of the letter.
FIFPro didn’t share a duplicate of the letter and mentioned it couldn’t remark additional, as negotiations are ongoing. The names of the gamers who signed the letter had been additionally not made obtainable.
FIFA didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Wednesday.
The transfer comes as there are rising requires FIFA to make the prize cash for the 2 tournaments extra equitable.
Argentina earned $42 million ($A64m) for successful the lads’s World Cup in Qatar, out of a prize pool of $440 million ($A666m). In distinction, the US ladies’s nationwide workforce received $four million ($A6.1m) out of a prize pool of $30 million ($A45m) for the 2019 Girls’s World Cup in France. The prize pool for the ladies’s event this summer time has not been set.
Beneath their historic collective bargaining agreements reached final yr, the US males’s and ladies’s nationwide groups will equally share the prize cash received on the World Cup after US Soccer takes a share off the highest.
US Soccer is at present the one federation that evenly distributes World Cup prize cash. The Canadian ladies’s nationwide workforce has known as for the same provision in ongoing negotiations for a brand new labor settlement with Canada Soccer.
The Girls’s World Cup has an expanded area of 32 groups, up from 24 in France. The 2019 event drew a world broadcast viewers of greater than 1 billion viewers.
