The Dutch soccer federation (KNVB) announced on Monday a new salary increase from next July 1 to pay women playing on the national team at the same amount that men receivea step that follows the agreement for wage parity already reached in countries such as the United States and Spain.
The The Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) has announced that it will pay female players the same bonus as men playing for the national team, including the use of name and image rights, or the commitment to produce new photographic and video material of the players of the Dutch women’s team.
the Dutch federation has been negotiating this deal since 2019 and the new collective collaboration agreement will take effect next month, a few days before the European Championships begin in England.
The KNVB regards this decision as “a first step” and a commitment to “equal treatment” of male and female groups. “We are happy with this new agreement (…) We have worked hard to achieve it and now it is a historic step for Dutch women’s football,” said Jan Dirk van der Zee, director of the KNVB, who maintains his standard refusal to disclose the amounts involved. .
Vivianne Miedema, scorer of the Dutch women’s team, has already stressed this agreement “It’s not just a big tribute to the groupbut it is an important social signal and we also hope that it will open the doors to the next ‘oranje’ players ”.
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The Netherlands women’s team reached 2019 World Cup final, the last he played, in a game they lost to the United States 2-0. On July 9 they will open the European season with a match against Sweden, favorite to win the title.
Last week, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) agreed. equalize “bonuses received as a percentage” of players of women’s and men’s teamsand regularize and improve the “image rights that soccer players receive”, in addition to agreeing to “substantial improvements in the working conditions of the Spanish soccer team”.
Source: La Verdad
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