The federation of Canada The soccer team, Canada Soccer, has reached a principle of agreement with the players of the women’s team in equalize them with their male counterparts in incentives per game and prizes for results.
“Is about respect, dignity and to level the competitive environment in a world that is fundamentally unequal,” said Earl Cochrane, general secretary of Canada Soccer in its announcement get close of postures.
“We were together interrelated and we made public the need for equity and the equal pay are the pillars of any new agreement with our players, and now we are fulfilling it. While this is an important step forward, and a sign of progress, something else to do to ensure that our two national programs receive the necessary resources and support to prepare and compete,” added the manager.
The body pressed that negotiations continue and, therefore, “the provisional financing agreement with the players of the women’s national team may change depending on the details included in the final collective agreement.”
This principle of agreement paves the way for a resolution long battle which, among other consequences, led the president of the federation, Nick Bontis, to present his resignation on February 27.
The Bontis resignation This came shortly after the presidents of the country’s 13 provincial and territorial federations demanded his resignation.
“While I have been one of the biggest advocates of leveling the competitive performance landscape for our national women’s team, unfortunately I will not lead this organization when this happens. This moment calls for change,” he said.
The women’s group gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympicswas forced by Canada Soccer to play the SheBelieves Cup two weeks ago, under threat of sanctions and finesdespite the fact that the players declared themselves strike in protest of the treatment received by the federation.
The players are demanding that, ahead of this summer’s Women’s Soccer World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Canada Soccer designate the same sources than those assigned to the men’s team during the World Cup Qatar.
On March 1, the former athlete and Olympic medalist charmaine cheaters he was named interim president of the Canadian federation. Crooks, who competed in five Olympic Games and won a silver medal in 1984 as part of the women’s 4×400 relay team, was then vice president of Canada Soccer’s board of trustees.
Source: La Verdad
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