Seattle Sounders gamers are demanding a fair proportion of the FIFA Membership World Cup prize cash the workforce secured when qualifying for the worldwide event, and obtained backing from the Main League Soccer Gamers Affiliation on Sunday.
FIFA introduced every participant would obtain $9.55 million, making the membership eligible for the payout after successful the 2021 Concacaf Champions Cup and changing into a Concacaf consultant to the competitors.
Along with an announcement from the MLSPA, gamers took to the pitch at Lumen Subject in shirts that learn “Membership World Money Seize” and “Honest Share Now” forward of the match in opposition to Minnesota United on Sunday.
“The MLSPA and all MLS gamers stand united with the Seattle Sounders gamers who tonight demanded a fair proportion of the FIFA Membership World Cup prize cash. FIFA’s new event piles on to gamers’ ever-increasing workload with out regard to their bodily well-being. In an effort to seize this extra calendar territory, FIFA needed to commit historic quantity of prize cash to safe membership and participant participation. Because of this, MLS will obtain an unprecedented monetary windfall,” the gamers and the MLSPA stated in an announcement.
“Regardless of the windfall, the league has refused to allocate a good proportion of these funds to the gamers themselves. For months, the gamers have privately and respectfully invited the league to to debate bonus phrases, but MLS has did not deliver ahead an inexpensive proposal. As a substitute of recognizing the gamers who’ve introduced MLS to the worldwide stage, the league — which routinely asks the PA to deviate from the CBA — is clinging to an out-of-date CBA provisions and ignoring longstanding worldwide requirements on what gamers sometimes obtain from FIFA prize cash in world competitions.
“It’s the gamers who make the sport potential. It’s the gamers who’re lifting MLS up on the worldwide stage. They count on to be handled pretty and with respect.”
MLS didn’t instantly reply with an announcement when contacted by ESPN.
The Sounders kick off the Membership World Cup in opposition to Botafogo on June 15 at Lumen Subject earlier than dealing with Atlético Madrid and newly topped Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain in Group B.
MLS groups Inter Miami CF and LAFC can even be taking part within the event. LAFC was the final workforce to qualify for the competitors, beating Membership América in a one-game playoff on Saturday to interchange Membership Leon in Group D.
