FIFA says each player at the Women’s World Cup will get a fixed bonus based on their performance, with a guarantee of $30 000 from the group stage.
However, the majority of the players are requesting that their countries’ football federations or governments pay them separately. There have been several confrontations between the players and the FAs in this.
And England women’s national team player Lucy Bronze has described the current ongoing discussions between the English FA and the players over separate performance-related bonuses as frustrating.
“It is frustrating but I think that’s the way the Women’s game has predominantly been. Although it has just recently become more well known and acknowledged, as a team we have always been working behind the scenes. As players, we have always had to do this, according to Bronze for Sky Sports News.
She also revealed that they have been pushing in the background and it is important for them to leave the game in a better place than they found it.
“In the past, we’ve worked assiduously and arduously in the background on projects that perhaps weren’t publicized and about which people didn’t know as much.
FIFA to pay players directly.
I think we are in a similar situation now, and I think the point of the players is about taking it to the next level and pushing the ceiling, not wanting to have a ceiling put on our game, and making sure we leave the game in a better place than what we found it,” she said.
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However, this time around, FIFA will pay players directly. The world cup prize money has traditionally been given to each nation’s FA directly. The FIFA Women’s World Cup begins on July 20 and runs through August.
