USA women win the World Cup but the USA men cannot beat Mexico.

A lot of pay is dictated by what FIFA gives out as prize money. All those winning bonus discrepancies you see between men and women is almost certainly due to the fact that the Men's World Cup brings in exponentially more money than the Women's World Cup, therefore more FIFA money is able to be handed out. If you want to direct your ire somewhere do it at FIFA in this case. Outside of world cups, how the USSF hands out money, be it revenue generated from the teams or arbitrary selection of pay, I'm not sure.

The only sports I can think of where women make as much as the men are tennis and t&f. And that’s because they generally compete in the same venues at the same time as the men, thereby sharing the same attendance.

On the other hand, women would get paid more for gymnastics and ice skating

Equity schmequity wrote:

The only sports I can think of where women make as much as the men are tennis and t&f. And that’s because they generally compete in the same venues at the same time as the men, thereby sharing the same attendance.

Federer/Nadal/Joker draw more than the top three women, and because of that, they usually get the biggest courts.

At Wimbledon, Center Court is the largest at just shy of 15,000; Court #1 is 12,300; Court #2 is 4,000.

The women get the same pay at the majors as the men do, although they play best of 3 sets, and the men play best of 5.

TheOhioState wrote:

Equity schmequity wrote:

The only sports I can think of where women make as much as the men are tennis and t&f. And that’s because they generally compete in the same venues at the same time as the men, thereby sharing the same attendance.

Federer/Nadal/Joker draw more than the top three women, and because of that, they usually get the biggest courts.

At Wimbledon, Center Court is the largest at just shy of 15,000; Court #1 is 12,300; Court #2 is 4,000.

The women get the same pay at the majors as the men do, although they play best of 3 sets, and the men play best of 5.

And Serena would be lucky to beat any competent high school boy.

What I find surprising here is that many of you, including rojo, do nothing but criticize and belittle the U.S. women, even though they are the best in the world, even as you claim to be protecting women in trying to keep the Caster Semenya's of the world out of women's competition. Which is it?

The us is one of the least sexist places around. That is why they won the world cup.

However, the us men will never have a great run at the world cup.

I think the us women deserve equal pay as the us men. I'm not sure I'd think this if the us men were good. But the us men are not good, and as such are not very interesting. If advertisers and marketers can't make as much money off the us women as the us men, they aren't trying hard enough. Equal pay will motivate them to try harder and get their money's worth.

Men's soccer in the U.S. is worthless. We can't even bet a third world country in this wacky sport..Lets cut the crap and realize men's soccer is too far behind the rest of the world to ever make an impact. Shut down the pro men's soccer league in the U.S. And put it in something we can identify with... Men's soccer is on the same level as cricket. Who understands... who cares..

A rising tide lifts all boats. All of these pro-female activists are positing this as a male vs female issue when it is not. The issue is that soccer is not a popular sport in the US. The women should be rooting for the men to help uplift the sport and if/when that happens women will benefit as well.

The LPGA comes to mind. Women’s golf has abysmal following and yet the winner of the women’s British open will make over half a million $. That’s about a third of the men’s winner. Trust me, women’s golf is far less than one-third as interesting as men’s golf.

Precious Roy wrote:

That is not what Res Ipsa means.

It pretty much is, maybe it’s been too long since you took torts.

And Serena would be lucky to beat any competent high school boy.

Spoken by someone who doesn’t watch ANY tennis. I guess you missed her acing Andreas Miles ( a full grown male pro) on Saturday in the mixed doubles then?!

The standard is nowhere near as high in Women's football hence anyone taking it seriously/ more professionally can take advantage..

NativeSon wrote:

Different Class of Athletes wrote:

Men's soccer = the world cares about

Women's soccer = the world does not care about

It's easier to win at a sport when you're the only one who cares about it.

All the women in the world had an equal chance of winning the world cup.......including my Kenya.

The US won.

....and no, it is not just the US that cares about women's football. That is an erroneous assumption.

UK has a league system hence we've reached 3 semis despite being nowhere near as skilled as our men's less successful team

rojo wrote: While people like to rip on the US for being a racist and sexist place, the reality is far from the truth.

NativeSon wrote:

Res ipsa Loquitur.

The title speaks for itself!

The title says to me "I know nothing about Football"

critic 100 wrote:

Men's soccer in the U.S. is worthless. We can't even bet a third world country in this wacky sport..Lets cut the crap and realize men's soccer is too far behind the rest of the world to ever make an impact. Shut down the pro men's soccer league in the U.S. And put it in something we can identify with... Men's soccer is on the same level as cricket. Who understands... who cares..

Good luck with that, bucko.

Apples and oranges. The best female athletes in the US play soccer. The best male athletes play other sports. Imagine if guys like LeBron James, Ezekiel Elliot, Tyreke Hill, Rob Gronkowski, Steph Curry, and Mike Trout all grew up focusing on soccer. Our national team would be a regular World Cup contender. With his frame and athletic ability, Anthony Davis probably could have been the world's best goalie, but instead he's one of the best players in the NBA.

rthydrh wrote:

Apples and oranges. The best female athletes in the US play soccer. The best male athletes play other sports. Imagine if guys like LeBron James, Ezekiel Elliot, Tyreke Hill, Rob Gronkowski, Steph Curry, and Mike Trout all grew up focusing on soccer. Our national team would be a regular World Cup contender. With his frame and athletic ability, Anthony Davis probably could have been the world's best goalie, but instead he's one of the best players in the NBA.

Lebron, Trout and Gronk would not be good at soccer (other than maybe goalie). Size does little for you other than headers and is a detriment over a 90 minute game. Guys like Ronaldo (who is tall by soccer standards at 6'1") only weigh about 175#. Soccer is more about lateral quickness, agility, endurance and ball skills, that is why the average height is about 5'9" and 150#. If you had listed NFL defensive backs and basketball point guards, you might have more merit to your post. Try to imagine Gronk or some other 250 lb. + running for 90 minutes.

Primo Numero Uno wrote:

Although a lot of women play basketball pro soccer players make way more than WNBA players.

Not true for the average pro at all (USnational team players do make good money in soccer).

"However, the NWSL operated with a salary cap of $421,000 for each of its nine teams during the 2019 season, with a minimum player salary of just $16,538 and a maximum salary of $46,200."

and

"Last year, the average WNBA salary was US$71,635, and this year appears to be closer to $75,000. The maximum veteran salary is $113,500. Meanwhile, for the upcoming NBA season, the minimum salary of a professional NBA player is $838,464."

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