{"id":1994391,"date":"2023-08-08T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/participation-payout-us-womens-soccer-players-pocket-7-3-million-for-disgraceful-showing-at-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:39:18","slug":"participation-payout-us-womens-soccer-players-pocket-7-3-million-for-disgraceful-showing-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/participation-payout-us-womens-soccer-players-pocket-7-3-million-for-disgraceful-showing-at-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"US Women&#8217;s Soccer Players Earn $7.3 Million for World Cup Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparticipation-payout-us-womens-soccer-players-pocket-7-3-million-for-disgraceful-showing-at-world-cup%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1994391&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Whining works! (And it&#8217;s easier than winning)<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure>\n  <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: Members of\u200d the U.S. women&#8217;s soccer team embarrassed themselves and their country by losing to Sweden and being <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/equal-pain-womens-soccer-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eliminated<\/a> from \u2064the FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the numbers<\/strong>: The U.S. women&#8217;s soccer team, despite\u2063 claiming to be more successful than its male\u200c counterpart, achieved precisely the same (disappointing) result as\u200b the men&#8217;s team did in the 2022 World Cup \u2063in Qatar.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was the worst World\u2064 Cup performance \u2064in history for \u200cthe U.S. women&#8217;s soccer team, but\u2062 it was also the\u200b most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/sports\/soccer\/us-women-equal-pay-prize-money-world-cup-53225c98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lucrative<\/a> thanks to a controversial &#8220;equal pay&#8221; arrangement with the U.S. men&#8217;s team.<\/li>\n<li>Both teams finished with one win and two draws in the group stage before losing in the first round of the knockout stage. Unlike the \u200cmen&#8217;s \u200bteam, however, the U.S. women were heavily favored to win it all.<\/li>\n<li>Men&#8217;s sports are more profitable because they are more entertaining \u200dto\u200b watch. Accordingly, the prize pool \u200dfor the men&#8217;s World Cup was $440 million, four times larger than the women&#8217;s World Cup prize pool of $110 million.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. men&#8217;s team earned $11.7\u2062 million for \u200dtheir World Cup performance, while the women&#8217;s \u2062team earned \u2063$2.9 million. According\u200d to terms of an &#8220;equal pay&#8221; agreement negotiated last \u200cyear, the teams will split their combined\u2063 earnings of $14.6 million, which amounts to a payout of $7.3 million each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Crucial context<\/strong>: The payout is\u2064 considerably \u2062larger than the $2.7 million the U.S. women took \u2064home after then-president Donald Trump&#8217;s patriotic leadership propelled\u2063 them to victory at the World Cup in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What they&#8217;re saying<\/strong>: &#8220;Probably equal pay,&#8221; said Megan Rapinoe, who missed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/equal-pain-us-women-eliminated-from-world-cup-after-anthem-protest\/\" title=\"US Women's World Cup Run Ends After Anthem Protest\">crucial penalty kick<\/a> \u200din the U.S. loss to Sweden. \u200cShe was asked to reflect on her favorite memory of representing the United States on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>: It&#8217;s proof that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/participation-payout-us-womens-soccer-players-pocket-7-3-million-for-disgraceful-showing-at-world-cup\/\" title=\"US Women's Soccer Players Earn .3 Million for World Cup Performance\">affirmative action policies designed<\/a> to achieve &#8220;equality&#8221; often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/20-things-ive-learned-about-humanity-during-the-pandemic\/\" title=\"20 Things I\u2019ve Learned About Humanity During The Pandemic\">create perverse incentives<\/a> \u2064that lead to worse outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Silver\u200d lining<\/strong>: If you want to feel better about the situation,\u2062 just think of\u200d all the corporate advertisers who are going to\u2062 lose a lot of money now that basically no one in America is going to watch the World\u2064 Cup since the United\u200d States has been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go deeper<\/strong>: Watch\u2064 the video below.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/megan-rapinoe-missed-penalty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Trails, Megan Rapinoe: Liberal &#8216;Equal\u200c Pay&#8217; Activist Exits Final World Cup in Humiliating Fashion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>most effective display of whining. Instead of taking responsibility for their loss, they blamed the referee, the field conditions, and even their opponents. Whining may be easier than winning, but it certainly doesn&#8217;t earn respect or success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1994392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}