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Originally Posted by MULLINS5
I thought this was about playing for and representing your country rather than making gobs more money than they're making now.
From my understanding, the women players make a higher percentage than men, but ends up in less dollars because men's soccer brings in 45X more revenue than women.
It's like WNBA vs NBA salary. The average starting salary for a WNBA player is $75k vs $850k for NBA.
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Patrick--Actually, it is worse in the WNBA. The rookie starting salary is under $40,000 and the max salary is about $117,000. That is why the WNBA season is the offseason for most of the stars. They make a lot more money playing in Russia and China.
Again, the revenue comes into U.S. men's soccer because people want to see the teams we play, not us. If you paid the men the same as the women you probably wouldn't lose one men's player, and even if you did it wouldn't impact the W-L record.