The American Football Federation has entered into an agreement with players who had filed a class action against the discriminatory policy of the wage proceedings.
Le Monde with AFP.
The American football star, Megan Rapinoe, greeted “a big day”. The American Football Federation is committed to paying the national women’s team at the same level as the men’s team in an agreement with a group of players – including Megan Rapinoe – which had continued the instance.
“US soccer is committed to paying equal pay from now for the national and male national teams during all friendly matches and tournaments, including the World Cup”, detail the terms of the agreement Between the two parties, transmitted to the France-Presse agency (AFP) Tuesday, February 22.
Twenty-eight players of the US National Women’s Team, World Champion in France in 2019, had filed a class action against the discriminatory policy of the American Football Federation. The agreement must end the prosecutions. It focuses on a total of $ 24 million, of which $ 22 million distributed according to a mode proposed by the female national team players.
“Not surgent monumental”
The application of the terms of the agreement will depend on the ratification of a collective agreement between the national team’s players and the Federation. Once this collective agreement ratified and the agreement approved by a court, the prosecutions will be extinguished.
“When we win, everyone wins”, Applaudi Megan Rapinoe on Twitter in the wake of the announcement of the agreement. “Obviously, we can not go back and erase the injustices we faced, but it comes out that it will never happen again,” she also said on the ABC chain.
Interviewee on this same chain alongside the President of US Soccer, Cindy Parow Cone, the attacker Alex Morgan also felt that the agreement represented a victory for all parties. “It’s a monumental step forward that makes it possible to feel estimated, respected, and repairs our relationship with US soccer,” the player said at 190 selections. “I do not just see that as a victory for our team or female sport, but for women in general,” also supported Alex Morgan.
The most titled team of the history of sport at Women
Cindy Parow Cone had said in September to hope to “harmonize” the premiums related to the World Cup for men’s and female teams, in order to settle the litigation opposing the instance to the players of the national team. With four world cup wins, and as many gold medals at the Olympic Games, the US National Football Team is the most titled in the history of sport in women.
The question of these premiums has been an important part of the trial brought by the US female team in 2019, and in particular by Megan Rapinoe, accusing the Federation of “Sirty refuse” to pay its players and players fairly .
The FIFA has for example awarded a bonus of more than 32 million euros to France during its global success in 2018 among men, while only 3.4 million euros were paid to the Americans. Their world title of 2019. And American players, eliminated in the round of 16 in 2014, had received 4.5 million euros while their female counterparts received only 1.45 million for winning their competition.