Indeed, the distinction between the national team set up and the general national soccer ecosystem is important. Not just in terms of who is actually sueing whom but also in terms of the overall financial model that the players are participating in.
It's definatly noticable that the US men's soccer league's model is to pay lots of money to foreign players and put on a show whereas the US women's game seems to have a model of domestic development.
Do you have some sources for the relative ticket sales and revenues of the women's and men's national teams? I'd like to do a bit of poking around. Prompted by your comment I did a bit of a looking at the revenues generated for national teams by the FIFA world cups but I think getting in to the nuts and bolts of the national team revenues would be useful for what I think is going to be part two of this post.
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Date: 2019-08-22 09:42 am (UTC)It's definatly noticable that the US men's soccer league's model is to pay lots of money to foreign players and put on a show whereas the US women's game seems to have a model of domestic development.
Do you have some sources for the relative ticket sales and revenues of the women's and men's national teams? I'd like to do a bit of poking around. Prompted by your comment I did a bit of a looking at the revenues generated for national teams by the FIFA world cups but I think getting in to the nuts and bolts of the national team revenues would be useful for what I think is going to be part two of this post.