During the European Championships in England in July, Scholz tweeted, among other things, using the hashtag #equalpay (equal pay): “It’s 2022. Women and men should be paid equally. This also applies to sport, especially national teams (…) .” The DFB women would have received 60,000 euros each for the title. The men would have received 400,000 euros last year.
“It’s important that well-known personalities work for us,” said national goalkeeper Merle Frohms on Saturday evening’s joint TV appearance with the national coach. When asked what she wanted for women’s football, the 27-year-old from VfL Wolfsburg wrote on a flipchart: “Visibility. Equal opportunities. Acceptance.” Voss-Tecklenburg named – each with a bold exclamation mark – “basic salaries in the league. Talent equity = NLZ. Kick-off times at prime time.”
National coach for basic salaries in the league
The talented girls would have to be admitted to the youth academies (NLZ) of the big clubs, which has so far been the exception. Her first approach would be “that we can turn all Bundesliga players into professionals, means basic salaries in the league. But not an “equal pay” in the dimension of men,” said Voss-Tecklenburg on BR. According to her knowledge, “certainly 50 percent” of Bundesliga players have to have a job to secure their livelihood.
The next home international match on October 7 in Dresden against France will be broadcast by ARD from 8.30 p.m. In any case, the vice European champions can count on the support of Scholz. The ex-chancellor already had during the European Championship: “I was most pleased with the intensive, charismatic, intelligent messages from Angela Merkel. She watched every game and supported us, and that was great,” reported Voss-Tecklenburg .