The contentious labor battle that roiled American soccer for years was underpinned by a maddening, seemingly unflinching inequity: FIFA, the sport's global governing body, paid participants in its men's World Cup many multiples more than those at its women's World Cup.
— who became two of the highest-paid national teams in the world, regardless of gender — but especially for the women, who figured to gain millions of dollars beyond what they otherwise would have earned from FIFA.path to equal payHe spoke at FIFA’s annual Congress about his “ambition” to offer equal prize money at the 2026 men’s and 2027 women’s World Cups.Both U.S. teams, to be clear, would benefit in equal measure from FIFA’s enlightenment.
In fact, the USWNT has never finished worse than third at a World Cup, while the USMNT has never finished better than eighth in the post-war era. So, in the FIFA-enlightened scenario, the pooling of money would almost certainly be a net gain for the men.
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