Spanish girls’s league gamers affirm strike over ‘unacceptable’ pay supply

Players from Spain’s girls’s high flight, Liga F, will observe via with strike motion after negotiations to enhance pay remained at an deadlock, unions representing the gamers mentioned Thursday.

Five unions, together with AFE and Futpro, known as a strike masking the primary two rounds of fixtures final week.

“We consider the final financial proposal from Liga F un acceptable and the five unions still maintain a firm proposition regarding the minimum wage that must be set so that female footballers in our country have salaries commensurate with their talent,” mentioned the unions in a press release.

The unions mentioned they’d lowered their request to a minimal wage beginning at 23,000 euros ($24,600) however Liga F refused to boost their supply past 20,000 ($21,400) euros a 12 months.

The present minimal wage is 16,000 euros ($17,000) a 12 months for Liga F gamers.

“After holding a meeting yesterday with the Liga F players, they consider the employers’ proposal unacceptable and are saddened that they have to maintain a strike even having lowered their initial proposal to 23,000 euros per year,” added the unions.

“It would mean, let’s not forget, earning less than the (match) referees.”

Negotiations over pay and situations started a 12 months in the past, when Liga F was professionalised. The conferences held this week solely involved the minimal wages of the gamers.

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The first spherical of fixtures was as a consequence of happen between September 8-10, with the second spherical on September 15-17.

Last season a refereeing strike disrupted the primary week of Liga F matches.

Eventually, the league agreed to pay referees greater match charges, whereas the Spanish authorities mentioned it will contribute to a refereeing retirement fund.

Spanish girls’s soccer has been within the highlight after La Roja gained the World Cup in August, however the victory was tainted by an incident involving federation chief Luis Rubiales on the medal ceremony after the sport.

Rubiales, 46, sparked worldwide outrage when he forcibly kissed Spain midfielder Jenni Hermoso on the lips.

The federation chief provoked additional upset with a defiant speech during which he refused to resign regardless of mounting stress and as an alternative railed towards “false feminism”.

Rubiales insisted his kiss was consensual, however Hermoso mentioned it was not and she or he felt just like the “victim of an assault”.

World soccer governing physique FIFA provisionally suspended Rubiales for 90 days whereas it research disciplinary motion.

Hermoso filed a authorized grievance towards Rubiales at Spain’s high felony court docket on Wednesday.

Currently, 81 Spain gamers are hanging towards the ladies’s nationwide crew, till the management of the federation adjustments — controversial coach Jorge Vilda was sacked Tuesday.