Summoned by the United States for the Women’s World Cup, American striker Alex Morgan, currently at San Diego Wave FC, valued the measure taken by Fifa to increase the prize pool offered by the tournament.
“FIFA has really done, and it’s surprising that this is coming out of my mouth, a good job of increasing the value of the prize pool. We still have a very long way to go, but having direct payments to players is (something) huge. say, it is something that changes the lives of some of them”, he said.
The new plan of Fifa for the World Cup, which will start on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand, is to allocate US$ 30,000 (R$ 145,500) from the profits to each athlete, instead of sending the money directly to the federations.
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All players from the country that won the championship will take home US$ 270,000 (about R$ 1.3 million) – part of the US$ 110 million earmarked by FIFA as the total prize pool for the Women’s World Cup. This number represents a growth of 300% compared to the 2019 World Cup.
Alex Morgan also pointed out that the North American soccer federation is the only one in the world where male and female team players receive equal salaries and prizes.
“With US Soccer, we have in our contract the same awards between men and women. And this is the only federation in the world that does that. We are very happy to have fought for this and we managed to achieve this goal. Now it’s time for FIFA and the other federations to do their part”, he concluded.
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