2023-10-25 19:56:32
By Valentina GómezOctober 25, 2023 at 10:37 hrs.
Before the start of the 2023 Women’s World Cup, FIFA had announced that, for the first time in the tournament’s history, all players from participating teams would receive compensation of $30,000, and that this amount would increase as the tournament progressed. . A historic initiative, as it works for the recognition and merit of the participating players, in addition to promoting soccer played by women.
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After the participation of the Colombian National Team, in which they reached the quarterfinals, each participating soccer player won $90,000 dollars; The controversy over the prizes lies in the fact that they will be delivered to the Colombian Football Federation and not to each player, which might put at risk the effective delivery of the money to the players. Alejandro Pino revealed that the prize money has already been in the hands of the FCF for some time, but so far, they have not reached each player.
Apologies @FCFSeleccionCol, it’s US$90,000 for each one. The good thing is that FIFA already sent you that money and it does not come out of your coffers, where the soccer players also left you US$2.1 million with the historic participation. An extra bonus from you would be a nice touch.
— Alejandro Pino Calad (@PinoCalad) October 25, 2023
Why weren’t the awards awarded directly by FIFA?
Although initially, Gianni Infantino implied that FIFA was going to give the awards to each of the players to avoid conflicts of interest with each federation. After a while, Infantino expressed that it was difficult for FIFA to get the prize to each participant and assured that the intervention of the federations was necessary; This caused controversy, because the money, being relegated to various institutions, may not reach the players.
Álvaro González, vice president of the FCF, gave this response regarding the payments on August 18 of this year: “These are concepts of ignorance mixed with hatred, because it is understood that if FIFA issues a circular and establishes prize scales for the selections and another table where they talk regarding awards to the players, those awards are untouchable. Logically, FIFA is not going to provide bank transfers to the five hundred women in the world.”
Even so, the FCF has not disbursed payments to each player, two months following the final of the orbital event.
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