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It has been a rapid expansion for a tournament that featured just 16 teams in 2011 in Germany and 24 sides in France four years ago, when the USA retained the trophy.
It is a huge rise on the $15 million offered in 2015, and confirmation that it is boom time for women's football, as huge crowds at club and international matches in Europe in particular recently attest.Nevertheless, the prize pot still pales in comparison to the $440 million dished out at the 2022 men's World Cup in Qatar.
"FIFA is stepping up not just with words but with actions. Unfortunately, this is not the case of everyone across the industry. Broadcasters and sponsors have to do more in this respect," insisted Infantino in March, as he claimed world football's governing body was receiving offers amounting to just one percent of what was being paid for the men's tournament.
"You are missing out on a large cultural moment. This is the premier women's sporting event in the world bar none and this is a paradigm shift globally, not just in the US."Rapinoe was one of the USA stars who led their fight for equal pay, resulting in a landmark collective bargaining deal last year meaning the country's men and women would evenly share World Cup prize money paid by FIFA.
That prevented some of France's top names from refusing to go to the tournament, but the World Cup will be marred by the absence of numerous leading players due to a worrying plague of serious knee injuries.
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