The men’s national team gets higher bonuses than the women’s. The Chancellor doesn’t like that.
Shortly before the cracker duel between Germany and Spain at the 2022 women’s European Championship on Tuesday evening, Chancellor Olaf Scholz tweeted. In it he criticized the financial inequality in the premiums for the men’s and women’s DFB teams.
“It’s 2022. Women and men should be paid equally. This also applies to sport, especially national teams,” wrote the 64-year-old on the platform. The country of Spain is already ahead.
Equal conditions instead of equal payment
Confronted with this, DFB national team director Oliver Bierhoff said on ARD: “I’m surprised by the statement. I’m happy to invite him, then I’ll explain a bit about the numbers”. Bierhoff continues: “We pay the highest premiums. (…) It is said that the Spaniards have ‘Equal Pay’, but it’s only about the percentage.”
Bierhoff emphasized that the national players are more concerned with the same conditions: “They have just as large a coaching staff, made the same preparations in the home ground, the infrastructure was equated.”
The men would have received 400,000 euros per person if they won the European Championship in 2021, for women it would be 60,000 euros this year.