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FIFA President Gianni Infantino says women should"pick the right battles" to"convince us, men, what we have to do" over equality issues in soccer.
Speaking at a media conference ahead of Sunday's Women's World Cup final between England and Spain, Infantino also addressed the funding disparity between men and women at their respective World Cup tournaments.Female soccer players earn 25 cents to the dollar of men at World Cup, new CNN analysis finds Soccer players at the 2023 Women's World Cup will on average earn just 25 cents for every dollar earned by men at their World Cup last year, according to a recent CNN analysis.
'Slogan that comes up every now and then'FIFA announced in June that, for the first time, about $49 million of the record $110 million Women's World Cup prize money would go directly to individual players — at least $30,000 each for participating and $270,000 to each player on the winning squad.The rest of the pot is going to be split between participating federations who will decide what share of this money to allocate to teams and players -- if any at all.
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