“One Nation, One Team”- Twitter reacts to US Soccer’s decision to grant equal pay to their men’s and women’s football national teams
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It is a historic day for US soccer in the United States and worldwide after a labor deal was struck which will close the pay gap between the men’s and women’s national teams. US Soccer has announced that collective bargaining agreements have been put in place to ensure the men’s and women’s national teams will receive equal pay.
This means that World Cup prize money received by FIFA will be combined and split evenly between the two teams. The men’s team will compete in the World Cup in Qatar later this year, having been drawn in the same group as England, Iran, and the winner of the final European playoff.
The women’s team won the 2019 World Cup in France and will be among the favorites for the 2023 event in Australia and New Zealand. The agreement makes the United States the world’s first country to achieve equal pay for its men’s and women’s soccer teams.
However, Twitter has always had mixed reactions from fans all around the world with many appreciating the move while others having contrasting opinions from the majority. Let’s go through such reactions:
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Other ratifications made by US Soccer to the old agreement
As well as splitting the World Cup bonuses evenly, the agreements will end guaranteed salaries for the women’s players and instead pay them at the same rates as the men for achievements such as roster selection and team performances.
For similar non-World Cup tournaments, players on both teams also will earn equal amounts of total prize money. The teams also will equally share a portion of the USSF’s broadcast, partner, and sponsorship revenue and receive a share of the revenue from tickets sold at USSF-organised home matches. Both teams will receive bonuses for games that are sold out.
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