re: Congrats to the US Men’s Team who just lost 40% of their earnings.

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Just in case you are receptive at all to consider changing your position, Saudi just offered a French player 700M for a 1 year contract, they would have paid his team 300M for playing yes again, 1 year. NFL has a salary cap of 225M per year… for the entire team! So why would a top athlete want to play soccer? Money

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Americans aren’t making that money

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Why in hell would you continue with soccer if you are an elite athlete in America?

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Bro these kids start sports at a super young age. It isn’t like they are making their sport decisions based off of financial planning (with a few exceptions like Jamie’s, Kyle Murray, Russell Wilson).

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Congrats to the US Men’s Team who just lost 40% of their earnings.
With that loss the US women will likely bring home around $2mm. The men got $13mm last year.

The two teams will now split the approximate $15mm under the new agreement.

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Well now you have given me a reason to root against the men's team if they are splitting their money with the women. I hope they lose every game now.

very courageous of them to lose this early.

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Basically just shows me everyone in USA Soccer is a complete jackass

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The federation needs to be razed to the ground and rebuilt from scratch.

this is what communism brings, what benefit does the men's team get from working harder if they know they don't see half of their earnings? why would the women work harder if they know they are getting paid big whether they win or lose? it's a toxic environment and everyone spirals into mediocrity

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Can someone explain how this deal works?

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Basically, the women hit the lottery every time the USMNT play and advance in World Cup.

Equalization of World Cup Prize Money:

In a first-of-its-kind agreement, U.S. Soccer has agreed with both the USWNTPA and the USNSTPA to pool and share a portion of prize money paid for the teams’ participation in the 2022 Men’s World Cup (MWC) and the 2023 Women’s World Cup (WWC). In this arrangement, the players on the 2022 MWC roster and on the 2023 WWC roster will be paid an equal percentage of the collective prize money paid by FIFA for the teams’ participation and performance in their respective World Cups. The same will occur with the 2026 MWC and the 2027 MWC.

For non-World Cup tournaments, the CBAs ensure that players on both teams will earn an equal amount of the total prize money paid when both teams participate in the same competition.

Commercial Revenue Share:

In another first for U.S. Soccer and the Players Associations, U.S. Soccer will share a portion of its broadcast, partner and sponsorship revenue with a 50/50 split of that share divided equally between USWNT and USMNT. This new revenue-sharing framework will provide additional encouragement for all parties to work together to grow the game.

U.S. Soccer will pay the USWNT and USMNT players a share of the revenue from tickets sold at U.S. Soccer-controlled home matches and a bonus amount for those games that are sellouts.

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How would the men agree to that?

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Because the women had the full support of the media. The men make the majority of their money through their clubs, so it wasn’t worth the huge media backlash to fight it.

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How would the men agree to that? They’re guaranteed to make far less no matter how much they do. So they basically just agreed to use USMNT revenue to fund the womens team because they couldn’t make the difference up on their own. That’s insane. They’re being paid revenues they didn’t actually earn. Why?

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They mostly make enough money that it wasn't worth getting railroaded by the cancel culture right before a world cup.

Not to mention that their CBA had been up for a while and I assume they would have gotten fricked without signing one so USSF and the media basically jammed it down their throats. I assume they were not pleased about it.

They at least got image rights and stuff but idk how much that's worth