US women's football team sue governing body for equal pay

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There was a great piece on this on the BBC, the male team get paid lots more, even though the women are far more successful.

'Soccer' is a lot more popular for women and girls in the US than here. So the team are great role models for a lot of young girls.

I don't know why they don't just try a bit harder so they can play in the men's team, instant pay rise!

This is an anomoly of the US model of professional team sports, where the league is owned by the governing body and the teams are frachises, allocated players who remain employees of the Federation.

In Europe, the league is administered and open to teams by competition. Teams employ their players and pay whatever the market will bear.

In the case of the England national teams, the women are paid, whereas the men have to make a donation to charity in return for the privilige of representing their country.