“Equality of pay is not possible: we don’t have the popularity or media attention of them”

Lea Schuller (25) said what many did not dare to say. The player of Bayern Munich She wants equal pay, of course, but she knows that it’s very complicated considering the difference between what male players make compared to female players: “Of course I want to have the same salary, but I also know that it’s not possible because I don’t have fame or media attention and the number of viewers”, he said in an interview with ‘Vogue’, the fashion magazine where he was on the cover.

The German international, who five days ago scored Bayern’s only goal against Arsenal in a Champions League match, explains that he is studying industrial engineering away because he knows “he has something to do before the end his career because I won’ I made enough money then.” Something normal in women’s football: “Besides the best teams, the players of other teams have to work. Some earn less from football than from their work.”