The Dutch soccer federation (KNVB) announced on Monday a new salary increase from next July 1 to pay women who play in the national team the same amount that men receivea step that follows the agreement for wage parity already reached in countries such as the United States and Spain.
The Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) announced that it will pay female players the same bonuses as men who play for the national team, including the use of name and image rights, or the commitment to make new photographic and video material of the players of the Dutch women’s team.
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the dutch federation has been negotiating this deal since 2019 and the new collective collaboration agreement will come into force retroactively next month, a few days before the European Championships in England start.
The KNVB sees this decision as “a first step” and a commitment to “equal treatment” of the men’s and women’s teams. “We are happy with this new agreement (…) We have worked hard to achieve it and now it is a historic step for Dutch women’s football,” said Jan Dirk van der Zee, director of the KNVB, who maintains his usual refusal to announce the amounts involved. .
Vivianne Miedema, scorer of the Dutch women’s team, stressed that this agreement “It is not only a great recognition to the groupbut it is an important social signal and we also hope that this opens the doors to future players of the ‘oranje'”.
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The Netherlands women’s team reached the 2019 World Cup final, the last he played, in a game that they lost to the United States with a 2-0. On July 9 they will open the European season in a match against Sweden, favorite to win the title.
Last week, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) agreed equalize “the bonuses received in percentages” by the players of the women’s and men’s teamsand regularize and improve “the image rights that the soccer players will receive”, in addition to agreeing on “substantial improvements in the working conditions of the Spanish soccer team”.
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