FIFA president Gianni Infantino is threatening a 2023 Women's World Cup blackout in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain for the 2023 Women’s World Cup due to a feud over broadcast offers.
Europe is FIFA's most lucrative broadcast market with $1.06 billion in broadcast revenue for the 2019-22 commercial cycle, mostly tied to the men's World Cup in Qatar.
In March, for world soccer’s annual meeting held in Rwanda, Infantino reported no progress with TV broadcasters while also announcing a more than three-fold increase in team prize money to $110 million for the tournament. Acknowledging it was not primetime in Europe, Infantino noted the European kickoff times of 9 a.m. or 10 a.m."is quite a reasonable time” for viewers.Telemundo’s Andrés Cantor and Ana Jurka discuss the USWNT’s biggest threats ahead of the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
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