‘Feminists will go loopy’: Backlash over pay row as Brazil girls’s soccer workforce lose 6-Zero to under-16s male aspect in hour-long recreation

The Brazil girls’s soccer workforce has endured mockery on social media after reportedly being crushed 6-Zero by a membership aspect’s male under-16s in an hour-long coaching recreation, resulting in a barrage of replies concerning the row over equal pay.

High-flight Brazilian aspect Gremio despatched a workforce of teenage boys to face the ladies’s nationwide aspect as a part of their preparations for the upcoming Olympic soccer match aspect in Tokyo, seeing off a workforce that included six-time FIFA greatest girls’s participant and World Cup document goalscorer Marta over two 30-minute durations.

The rating was stored inconspicuous on official accounts, though coach Pia Sundhage admitted to the official web site that matching “very quick” opponents within the “male class” had been a “problem”.

“Once we play huge groups, who’re very quick, we may have any such problem,” mirrored the Swede.

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“The sport was additionally necessary for us to guage the gamers individually. We had some conditions of 1 towards one, safety of the ball and needing to react rapidly in these conditions. It’s a great way to enhance and be prepared for the nice challenges of 2021.”

The consequence evoked recollections of the USA Ladies’s nationwide workforce’s (USWNT) 5-2 defeat towards a male aspect in a pleasant in 2017, when the 2019 World Cup winners misplaced to FC Dallas’s under-15s workforce.

The USWNT has been pushing for equal pay as a part of a wider push for feminine worldwide sides to obtain the identical renumeration as their male counterparts, and critics who learn of Brazil’s consequence have been fast to seek advice from that row.

Think about my shock … 🤯😂

— Dom Sidoli (@DomSidoli) January 13, 2021

Feminists will go CCCCCRRRRRRAAAAZZZZYYYYYYY!

— Harry Wallace (@BlueKnight1878) January 13, 2021

Certainly now the beneath 16s deserve equal pay to the ladies?????

— Michael Baldwin (@Michael71494965) January 13, 2021

“Feminists will go loopy,” mentioned one, whereas others requested outspoken USWNT workforce celebrity Megan Rapinoe for her ideas on the rating and mentioned that the victorious under-16s deserved the identical pay.

An opposing observer argued: “They aren’t claiming to be higher than male footballers, in the identical method that [tennis player] Serena Williams is not claiming to be higher than [Rafael] Nadal.

“Nonetheless, they’re prime of their chosen sport. I am guessing all of the lads on listed here are simply p*ssed off [amateur] gamers.”

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Information of the consequence got here on the identical days as studies of former USWNT goalkeeper Hope Solo’s views on equal pay.

Solo advised a BBC podcast that the workforce’s wage battle ought to be taken to “politicians, congress and the US Senate”.

She additionally supplied stinging criticism of workforce tradition, saying: “Most gamers have come from wealthy, white households. That’s the tradition of the USWNT.

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“It’s a very privileged, white tradition. I keep in mind Carli [Lloyd, striker] and I at all times speaking concerning the tradition, ‘we now have to vary this tradition’.

“We have been very good to the younger children coming in, however I believe it’s as a result of we have been bullied. We at all times wished to vary that tradition, however in the end I’m undecided we succeeded.”

The Telegraph mentioned it had approached the US Soccer Federation for remark.

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