Wall Street Journal: A Popular Women’s World Cup Raises Pressure for More Prize Money
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Wall Street Journal: A Popular Women’s World Cup Raises Pressure for More Prize Money
By Rachel Bachman
8 July 2019
LYON, France—FIFA president Gianni Infantino called the 2019 World Cup phenomenal, incredible, fantastic, the best Women’s World Cup ever. He added: “There will be a before, and an after, the Women’s World Cup 2019, in terms of women’s football.”
Such success has immediately raised a difficult question for FIFA: With record-setting TV ratings around the world, and a four-time U.S. champion whose players have made issue of pay equity, how much should the prize money be paid to women’s teams be increased?
Read the full article in The Wall Street Journal.
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