Atlanta United coach Frank de Boer on equal pay: 'If it's just as popular as the men, they will get it, because the income and the advertising will go into that. But it's not like that, so why do they have to earn the same? I think it's ridiculous.'
Football coach and former player Frank de Boer has been criticized for calling equal pay at international level a"ridiculous" idea.
De Boer, who played over 100 times for the Netherlands in the 1990s and early 2000s, took charge of Atlanta United last year, helping the side to win its first MLS Cup. "It's the same like tennis," De Boer said in an interview with The Guardian."If there are watching, for the World Cup final, 500 million people or something like that, and 100 million for a women's final, that's a difference. So it's not the same.
World Cup champions reflect on win amid equal pay fight 02:37"Frank de Boer says it's ridiculous that men and women should be paid equally in football," tweeted Kieran Theivam, who covers women's football for The Athletic."The Netherlands Women in the last two years have won a European Championship and reached the final of a World Cup. Frank De Boer did neither of those.
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