Leo Messi and Alexia Putellas were the stars of the French night on Monday. The image of both was projected on the Eiffel Tower after the two had taken the stage to receive the Ballon d’Or. The seventh for the current Argentine PSG player, the first for the Catalan footballer from Barcelona. The two formed the Masia of the culé club. The same award, the same decoration but there are still economic differences between men’s and women’s football worldwide.
The Ballon d’Or received by each footballer does not carry an economic prize, it is the same for both. However, if we look further, we can continue to find the striking differences between women’s and men’s football on an economic level. And nothing better than to take as an example the best player and the best player of the season to analyze it: while Leo Messi earns 30 million euros a year as a PSG player, Alexia Putellas earns just over 150 thousand euros in a period of twelve months. All this without counting, of course, advertising revenue, which is also very far off. Calculator in hand: the best player in the world earns 200 times more than the best player in the world.
“Equal play!” It was a cry that was heard in the stadiums during the 2019 World Cup in France, and that the one chosen as the best player of the tournament then and then also winner of the Ballon d’Or that year, the American Megan Rapinoe took all the microphones. Despite the initiatives of several countries (Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Brazil, England, among others) so that the players of their national teams receive the same salaries, at club and league level the panorama continues to be diametrically different. Many of the female footballers play amateur games in most countries and, where women’s football is more developed (the case of Europe and the United States), the elite leagues are made up of a limited number of clubs, and there are many differences. investment and development of discipline among them.
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