![]() ![]() The stadium will be a venue hosting matches during the 2023 FIFA World Cup held in Australia & New Zealand commencing on July 20th, with the final being played on August 20th. SYDNEY - APRIL 28: An aerial view of Sydney Football Stadium on Apin Sydney, Australia. Just weeks before their first game, Jamaica’s players released a statement, expressing their “utmost disappointment with the ,” saying that the women’s team had missed several friendly matches due to “extreme disorganization,” and that they had “showed up repeatedly without receiving contractually agreed upon compensation.”Īsher told CNN Sport ahead of the tournament: “We just need the federation to know that we are holding them accountable, and we are taking that matter seriously and we don’t really have time to waste … We’re still trying to give them space to make up for lost time and to shift gears in a way that supports the best performance we can have.” Jamaica’s Chinyelu Asher, a member of the FIFPRO Global Players’ Council, told CNN Sport the current squad has reached a “breaking point.” Eventually, they were – but four years on and history is beginning to repeat itself. Two months later, the players still hadn’t been paid by the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF). Havana Solaun (R) and Jamaica are appearing at their second ever Women's World Cup. Having overcome almost every conceivable obstacle – the team disbanded in 2016 before an unlikely heroine, Bob Marley’s daughter, Cedella, came to the rescue – here they were competing at the pinnacle of the sport. When Jamaica’s Havana Solaun threaded the ball into the net against Australia four years ago, she was mobbed by her teammates as they celebrated the first Women’s World Cup goal in their nation’s history. ![]() The popularity of the sport is undoubtedly growing, but from Jamaica to Canada, South Africa to Spain, several teams arrive at this tournament having been locked in disputes with their federations.ĭespite the huge progress made in recent years, the fight for respect and equity – or sometimes to even be paid at all – continues. Players such as Australia’s Sam Kerr, as well as Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan of the US Women’s National Team (USWNT) are celebrated as household names, while England’s Lionesses adorn billboards across the country. Yet, this year’s edition kicks off in Australia and New Zealand with the sport at somewhat of an inflection point, not least because of the disparity between what women players are paid in comparison to their male counterparts. With its estimated worldwide audience of more than one billion viewers, the Women’s World Cup is one of the biggest sporting events on the planet. When asked for comment, soccer’s world governing body referred CNN to what FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in March when the organization announced details of the prize money on offer at this year’s tournament.Īt the time, he said FIFA was embarking on a “historic journey for women’s football and for equality,” adding that the aim was equality in payments for the men’s and women’s World Cups in 20 respectively. ![]() In addition to prize money, FIFA committed to paying $42 million to the federations and players’ clubs for Women’s World Cup preparations. The rest of the pot is going to be split between participating federations who will decide what share of this money to allocate to teams and players – if any at all. The gender pay gap will be very much alive and kicking at a tournament which begins on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand.įIFA announced in June that, for the first time, about $49 million of the record $110 million Women’s World Cup prize money would go directly to individual players - at least $30,000 each for participating and $270,000 to each player on the winning squad. Still, that is an improvement: last time, in 2019, it was less than eight cents per dollar, according to data provided by world governing body FIFA and global players’ union FIFPRO. Soccer players at the 2023 Women’s World Cup will on average earn just 25 cents for every dollar earned by men at their World Cup last year, a new CNN analysis found. ![]()
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