U.S. women's soccer demands for equal pay rejected by judge

[FukkaPaidEmail]

He is also bagging on the MLS for having to bring in foreigners but no one gives a damn at all about the USA women's soccer league. I had to google the name of it just now.

I'll admit that the stadium looks empty when I go to Dynamo games, but I'm sure it's even worse when the Dash play.

Facts

No idea what the Dash is btw

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

They're not competing for money against the WNBA though.

They're competing for money against men's soccer and people worldwide ain't checking for women's soccer like that.

Case closed.

They play 6 televised games once every 4 years and wonder why they don't make as much as the men...

shyts retarded...

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Why you quoting that far-right racist troll?

 

[nyknick]

If you outperform a contract, should you not have the right to change or adjust it? We are talking about sports contract which are adjusted all the time.

No, it's a contract. Unless you have some kind of leverage or bargaining chip you can use then just have to live with it.

And their only bargaining chip was public sympathy and empty media platitudes which don't work in court


It's not like they can decide to hold out and then play for Latvia in two years

 

[10bandz]

Why you quoting that far-right racist troll?

These agents stay exposing themselves

 

[broller]

Someone broke it down for the average person:

Smh at that sensationalist headline by CBS.

 

[Jblaze204]

Why you quoting that far-right racist troll?

The coli will quote David Duke as long as it fits they're opinion

 

[F K]

Joe Biden is going all in for the becky vote. hopefully it works

 

[dontreadthis]

oh now everybody is staunchly against holdouts and for honoring contracts the whole way through

 

[DlAMONDZ]

It all makes sense now. I always wondered why they never brought up any sort of numbers/facts to back their arguments. They never had a case to begin with and were trying to strong arm US Soccer via media pressure

 

[concise]

If it wasn’t true, then is US men’s soccer intent on having David Beckham and Zlatan to help increase the marketability and popularity of soccer here in the US. They don’t have the star power than women’s soccer do even as they bring in more revenue than the women. It’s also the reason why they hyped up Freddy Adu the way that they did.

Revenue doesn’t equate to popularity.

"Star power that the women do"
Women's soccer here only matters during the World Cup and Olympics. Lots of Olympics sports get high ratings only during that period and struggle any other time.

Gymnastics, swimming, and track get high ratings during the Olympics also. Why not pay them more also?

The attendance for their actual league is still tiny, still worse than what MLS had in the pre-Beckham days. And they've had several leagues fold during the time period since MLS started. If their star power meant anything, the men would have had 3 or 4 different leagues appear and fold in the past 25 years while the women's league would still be standing strong.

 

[Red]

What's the revenue for men's soccer, vs women's?

I don't know if your question is rhetorical but on a global level it's not even close. One match day globally for the men's game probably makes more than the women's game does in years.

 

[Xerces]

get demolished by 15 year old boys and think you deserve equal pay American lezbrehettes

 

[Piff Perkins]

I don't know if your question is rhetorical but on a global level it's not even close. One match day globally for the men's game probably makes more than the women's game does in years.

I'm not in tune with the revenue side of this, I'm not trying to troll or something. When you say globally are you talking about the US team when they play abroad? I'm curious what the numbers are.

It seems like the US women's team is more popular domestically, but that money must not match what the US team makes globally in what is essentially a jobber role of getting embarrassed by international teams. My view is the same for any sport...this isn't charity or a social experiment. NBA players get paid signifigantly more than WNBA players because the league is astronomically more popular. Whereas virtually nobody gives a fukk about the WNBA, it has no real social media presence, TV ratings are bad, etc. It literally only exists because the NBA subsidizes it. Flip side IF the US women's soccer team was a higher earner than men's soccer, of course they should be paid more. But from the sounds of it, that's not the case - they don't earn more revenue.

 

[desjardins]

Reading the details it looks like they negotiated for base salary guarantees while the men negotiated for incentive laden salaries