Matt Turner of the United States celebrates the profitable objective by Christian Pulisic towards Iran on the World Cup on Tuesday.

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Matt Turner of the United States celebrates the profitable objective by Christian Pulisic towards Iran on the World Cup on Tuesday.

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Players on the U.S. girls’s nationwide crew have lengthy cheered on their male counterparts. Thanks to the historic equal pay deal signed earlier this 12 months, they’ve hundreds of thousands extra causes: The two squads are evenly splitting the World Cup prize cash they earn.

When the lads’s crew advanced to the Round of 16, in addition they secured a payout of no less than $13 million. An equal share of that cash will go to the ladies’s crew — a windfall better than any prize the ladies have gained of their string of event successes.

Under the collective bargain agreements the 2 nationwide squads signed with U.S. Soccer earlier this 12 months, the federation will take 90% of the prize cash FIFA pays for the 2022 males’s World Cup — and in addition for subsequent 12 months’s girls’s World Cup — and divide it evenly between gamers on the 2 groups.

“World Cup winnings have long been considered the biggest obstacle to true equality between the United States National Teams,” in line with the U.S. Women’s National Team Players Association.

The breakthrough association chips away at that impediment, but it surely additionally highlights a telling statistic: By watching the lads advance, the ladies’s crew stands to achieve extra money than they had been awarded for profitable the 2 final girls’s World Cups.

In all, FIFA is doling out $440 million in prize money to the 32 males’s groups at this 12 months’s event.

FIFA gave out $30 million in prize money for the 24 girls’s groups on the 2019 event — far shy of the $42 million the profitable males’s crew will obtain on the 2022 World Cup.

“American women received a $110,000 bonus for winning the 2019 World Cup,” the Associated Press reported earlier this 12 months, including, “the U.S. men would have received $407,000 had they won in 2018.”

As a part of its equal pay negotiations with U.S. Soccer, members of the ladies’s crew additionally gained $22 million in back pay, ending a lawsuit over the problem. The new contracts had been agreed upon and signed after that settlement was reached.