Thursday's SheBelieves Cup opener between the United States and Canada should be an important mile marker on the road to the 2023 Women's World Cup. It should be a test and a celebration, reigning world champs against Olympic champs. Yet the Canadian players enter it feeling 'disgusted,' 'exhausted,' 'deflated' and 'shattered' amid a dispute with the Canada Soccer Association (CSA), which doubles as the sport's national governing body and their part-time employer.
:"Canada Soccer … told us that if we did not return to work — and did not commit today to playing in Thursday's game against the United States — they would not only take legal action to force us back to the pitch but would consider taking steps to collect what could be millions of dollars in damages from our Players' Association and from each of the individual players currently in camp." They couldn't afford to take those risks.
Both women’s and men’s players wondered how it could be possible that, with both teams more successful and marketable than ever before, the CSA supposedly couldn’t afford to compensate and fund both teams better than ever. The contract, at the time, perhaps gave Canada Soccer some financial security. But it was essentially a betSince 2018, the value of those commercial and media rights have exploded, far beyond $3.5 million. But the booming revenue doesn’t go to Canada Soccer; it doesn’t trickle down to the players; it can’t be used to fund the national teams. It goes instead to owners of the men’s professional league, who can do with it what they please.
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