In a country where soccer is king, few women players can make a living
Tickets to most women’s matches range between zero and six euros, while tickets to men’s matches can cost up to 2,000 euros for VIP seating.
Susanna Soler, a professor at the National Physical Education Institute of Catalonia in Barcelona, attributed the deep discrepancies to the way Spain — and other European countries — view soccer. “Women’s soccer is an activity, a product and industry that is starting to generate itself,” he said. “What is clear is growth depends on its revenue. And the revenues of the men are what they are because they have attracted millions of spectators.”
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