Posted on 02/11/2023 9:45:23 AM PST by nickcarraway
The Canadian women's national soccer team is on strike due to pay equity problems and budget cuts.
Star forwards Christine Sinclair and Janine Beckie confirmed the news to Rick Westhead of TSN on Friday:
The players also released a statement:
"With the biggest tournament in women's football history less than six months away, our preparation for the World Cup and the future success of the women's national team program are being compromised by Canada Soccer's continued inability to support its national teams," the statement read, in part. "Despite our strong track record of success and history-making achievements for more than a decade, we continue to be told there is not enough money to adequately fund our program and our youth teams."
The players are also calling for sweeping change in Canadian soccer leadership:
"If Canada Soccer is not willing or able to support our team, new leadership should be found. We are committed to do whatever it takes to create public awareness of this crisis and to force Canada Soccer to start to support the national teams properly."
Canada is currently scheduled to participate in the SheBelieves Cup, a four-team tournament featuring the United States, Brazil and Japan. Canada is scheduled to play host United States on Thursday at Orlando, Florida's Exploria Stadium.
✨ Watch more top videos, highlights, and B/R original content Canada has also qualified for the 2023 Women's World Cup, with its first match set for July 21 against Nigeria in Melbourne, Australia.
The players have made it clear, however, that the team will do "whatever it takes" to raise awareness of the situation, and that means a strike before two major tournaments.
"If Canada Soccer is not willing or able to support our team, new leadership should be found," the players wrote. "We are committed to do whatever it takes to create public awareness of this crisis and to force Canada Soccer to start to support the national teams properly."
As noted by Westhead, the Canadian men's soccer team has released a statement in support of the women's team, saying that national team budgets are "cloaked in secrecy" among other claims.
The Canadian women's team, which won Olympic gold two years ago, is ranked No. 6 in the world.
When other women won't watch, it's clearly not a desirable viewing.
C’mon it is just as big as the WNBA
How many Canadians love soccer?
You might be a genius!
Nobody.
Who in the hell is going to notice?
“...soccer playing dykes…”
You mean the ones that look like they’re only playing soccer because they couldn’t get a game of rugby going?
Have you ever been to Montreal?
Lol, yes.
Saw some report like that on womens basketball which the NBA supports, they said if the women players were paid based on their revenue, they each would have to pay about $85,000 to play.
Maybe.
“ Canada is currently scheduled to participate in the SheBelieves Cup, a four-team tournament featuring the United States, Brazil and Japan. Canada is scheduled to play host United States on Thursday at Orlando, Florida’s Exploria Stadium.”
I think I see the problem. This is what donors are for, and not countries. They should be sponsored by Tim Horton’s, not the Canadian people. “SheBelieves Cup?” Bet she couldn’t describe a “she” if asked.
Why should these women have “pay equity”, presumably with a men’s team, when a good high school team of 16-18 year olds could probably crush them?
Yes. Just have one national team per sport. No need to steal from the best team to pay the minor leaguers.
“Will anybody notice ?”
Probably not.
Then again, my advice is for all the women who care so deeply about the disparity in wages between men and women’s sports should STFU and purchase tickets. Nobody owes you jacksquat. Provide a superior product and people will pay for it. Provide a substandard sh!tty product and people will not waste their time or money on it. They will go somewhere else. Put your money where your mouth is you self-righteous female turds.
JMHO.
Same for some fag “romance” movie that came out recently, all the woke media was raving about it, but nobody went to see it, not even the fags. But they sure complained about nobody else ponying up to see it as “homophobic.”
“...all the woke media was raving about it, but nobody went to see it, not even the fags...”
Excellent observation, FRiend. Yet, they still want to convict us all of hatred and demand we accept responsibility and accountibility for the financial failure of a sh!tty product that even fags hate.
The USA Team got theirs...and shouldn’t have...they just don’t bring in the bucks. They are NOT equal to a men’s team.
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