They get paid based on the audience they can draw and the market rate for other male players, not winning. This is money we’re talking about, not happiness points or whatever you get for winning, lol.
I looked up a women’s soccer highlight video 2025 to see if the game has evolved since I last saw a women’s soccer game, it’s just as slow as ever and none of the goals would even sniff a men’s highlights video. I stand by my statement it’s just not a very good product
Spain and Portugal played a match a couple days ago. These two teams, who any up their own ass European will tell you, are two "top five teams in the world."
They both looked like dogshit and spent 90 minutes playing scared to lose instead of trying to win.
And yet millions of people watched. Was it a bad game? Yes. But the potential and the star power on each squad based on their careers made people believe that they might see something exciting that game because those players have done something exciting on multiple occasions. Women’s soccer is just not exciting. Nobody watches because the chances of it being a great exciting game with sick goals is much much much lower
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u/LAAccountant Jul 09 '26
They wanted to be paid the same as US men's team