The captain of the French women’s football team, Wendie Renard, judges that the United States is “a lot ahead” on the question of equal pay in football, an equality obtained by American players following an agreement announced Tuesday. “We know that American football is way ahead of European football. “Soccer” is the number 1 sport, there is no comparison. Today, they have titles, a track record, so they can afford to have this fight with their federation ”, reacted the defender of Lyon following the victory of the Blue once morest the Netherlands in the Tournoi de France.
2019 World Champions, the Americans “are more popular, something that is not at all the case in Europe”, continues Renard, urging players in Europe to “keep fighting to win, already. Because when you win, you have more power to ask for things, ”she justifies. “Above all, it is not equal pay that is interesting. It’s already the structures in the clubs, the daily life, ”continues the captain of the Blue, who do not have a major title to their name.
“Of course, when you manage to win titles with the national team, you can obviously ask the federation for things. For now, our track record is blank. We are already fighting on the ground, and then the subject will come. We will go on it in the years to come and that’s normal because I think we deserve it too, ”concludes Renard.
On Tuesday, the United States Soccer Federation agreed to pay the women’s national team at the same level as the men’s team in an agreement with a group of players, who had sued the case. A step forward considered as “a monumental step forward” by the American international Alex Morgan.
