by sussexpob » Fri May 24, 2019 3:59 pm
I keep on being annoyed by articles I am reading interviewing Ada Hegerberg. While it might please the extreme liberal crowd to keep on banging on about football being sexist, and calling for wage parity with male footballers, I tend to think that this lady is living in an alternative reality; how can she demand she gets paid the same as Lionel Messi, her male counterpart for the best player in the world, when the Women's champions league final tickets didnt sell out a stadium of 20,000 people, even though they were basically as close to free as possible (they were apparently 1-3Euros depending on the seat!). Her old team in Norway apparently got a crowd of 50 people turn up for a recent match (2nd in the top league, so no crap team), and she is complaining about the Norwegian FA being sexist and refuses to play for the national team because this frankly horrible bunch of men in charge wont lash down billions of Krone's of investment on womens football; they do however pay woman the same as men, and recently increased funding to be vastly disproportional to the womens game when revenue and turnover are taken into account.
But apparently thats not good enough. She thinks she should be earning 400,000 grand a week like Messi when Lyon cant get 1,000 people through the gate when the tickets are a Euro for a game, and when the club is still making a loss despite the fact their costs for all things like stadium, training pitches etc are underwritten by the male parent club. And thats pretty much true of every ladies team, none of them make any money, and all of them are kept afloat by male teams.
But thats obviously not good enough. These clubs need to do more! The Norwegian FA needs to do more...... because it makes sense to put a billion krone into a game which 50 people turn up to when it costs nothing to get in.
Maybe she should turn around and see her wages are better than most, and are not based on any profit made by her employer, so she should maybe be a bit more grateful and stop resorting to the most lame stereotyping.
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