2023-11-20 10:54:54
▲The Tri women’s team, under the leadership of coach Pedro López, demonstrated its potential in the Pan American Games.Photo @miseleccionfem
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accustomed to managing As if it were an independent republic, the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) reacted with poorly concealed indignation at the initiative of the Legislative Branch, which seeks to establish a base salary for men and women practicing this sport. He immediately tore his clothes (just like footballers do when they roll on the ground on the field and howl at the slightest contact) and had the outrage to claim that such a measure puts the 2026 World Cup at risk!
The federations requested a hearing to explain to the legislators what they consider their heroic work, the hard burden that weighs on their shoulders to provide a circus to the people, while those seem to ignore everything… Perhaps for the moment it is not possible to equal the salaries of the league feminine and masculine; However, more State regulation is needed in the management of soccer – the national favorite sport – which until now has been untidy, abusive and is monopolized by a group of businessmen with shady interests.
After FIFAgate, when the British and American police uncovered the sewer of world football, the idea that the International Federation prohibits the intervention of civil authorities in organized football is reduced to a myth; Of course you can! There shouldn’t be any superpower. This has been demonstrated by the governments of Spain or Argentina, and in the Mexican case it becomes urgent, because not all clubs work with children – boys and girls -, because the sporting spirit disappears by eliminating promotion and relegation, and because, in Ultimately, they have lost their way.
In Mexico there is no freedom of association like in the United States and Europe. The so-called AMFpro (Mexican Association of Professional Footballers) is supervised and manipulated by the FMF, which has prevented the formation of a union at all costs. No one can defend their rights, except the legislators… In 2017, the women’s league was born gagged, players and strategists must accept everything and remain submissive, because they are doing them the favor of putting together a tournament that is presumed to be professional, although the salaries of They were a joke at the beginning and they are still rickety.
In a reaction letter, the federation Mariana Gutiérrez launches a veiled threat, because according to her text the Senate initiative is unviable, would cause the disappearance of the Women’s League and would be a tragedy with an unrecoverable cost. That is to say, for her there is no option: they remain the same or women’s soccer disappears… It is incredible that the FMF has not been able to make that branch lucrative, given that the players can successfully advertise all types of products: cosmetics, cars, clothing, technology… Let them put an efficient department to work! marketing! Urge.
True, the FMF does not receive money from the government as happens with federations of other disciplines, but the clubs bleed the coffers of the municipalities under the threat of moving their team, and if they can, they evade taxes… In general, football he manages to generate his own resources, signs contracts with the company SUM (Soccer United Marketing) and collects dollars in the United States; There he found his gold mine and his downfall, it was like selling his soul to the devil, because he renounced tournaments that gave him experience and prestige, and walks around like a colt with blinders, without looking at anything around him.
He painfully fell into the ravine of ambition, of greed. For years he has not carried out his work well: Tri He was excluded from the Paris Olympic Games, both in men and women; In the World Cup in Qatar he played a deplorable role and, in a desperate measure, Juan Carlos was imposed as boss The bomb Rodriguez; However, the Tricolor has just made a fool of themselves in the first leg against Honduras to go to the Copa América 2024. The second leg is played on Tuesday and victory is a must.
Among the players there are several professionals: lawyers, doctors, architects… however, they earn much less than the undisciplined Alexis Vega. At the national team level they perform: they won gold in the Central American and Pan American Games; So why can’t they have a similar base salary?… It is obvious that some Liga Mx teams are not interested in this branch, so they should step aside and give access to other businessmen!… And, above all, everything, don’t take your finger off the line, no matter what happens, women’s soccer is here to stay.
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