Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, recently ‘threatened’ major European countries (especially Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Germany) leaving them without live images of the matches of Women’s World Cup that was disputed this summer in New Zealand and Australia if they did not significantly increase their offers for television rights.
The top leader of world football regretted that the offers received so far were lower than those formalized for the Women’s World Cup and asked for respect to reach minimally presentable levels. He described them as ‘unacceptable and disappointing’.
Today, relay.com has ‘discovered‘ some of these offers, which came to confirm Infantino’s complaint. Or at least, to give him a reason regarding its disproportion with the amounts offered in connection with the World Cup in Qatar.
In SpainFor example, TVE has acquired the rights of a certain number of parties to Qatari quotes for a little less than 38 million of euros. Today, the offer to broadcast the Women’s World Cupwhere Spain participated in the group of teams with options, is of 1.88 million euro, which is 5% of Qatar.
The percentage is even less than Germany. There, ‘TV’ paid to carry the Qatar World Cup in the home of all his fans 214 million of euros. for the World Cup woman your offer reaches 5 million euros, which is 2.37% of the tournament played last November and December.
In case Italy is perhaps the most surprising. In the absence of the ‘squadra azzurra’, which for the second consecutive World Cup did not qualify for its final stage, the transalpine country paid 160 ‘kilos’ for the rights of Qatar-2022. Now, for those in New Zealand and Australia, the offer is almost out of reach million euros: 0.6%.
Finally Relevo.com is in 8 million of euros the offer of United Kingdom for having the rights to the Women’s World Cup, although in this case there is no data on the amount paid at the time for the rights by Qatar.
Source: La Verdad
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