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[The Ref]

4 English players, 1 English coach and 1 English keeper.  Heavy biased towards England with 6 .

 

[Unnamed Trialist]

17 hours ago, red card said:

FIFA names Alexia Putellas of Barcelona as best women's player again.

Best GK is Mary Earps of Man United (Labbe was there to present award).

Best coach is Wiegman of England National Team. 

Best 11 has 4 English players, 2 Spanish and 1 each from Chile, France, Germany, Australia & USA.

Last year, when Putellas was actually playing and Barça had handily won the Champions League, Putellas was not voted onto the best 11 by the players. Something odd, perhaps perverse, went on there. It made no sense at all, it was an embarrassing decision that suggested the players were voting for entirely non-objective reasons.

This year, as if by compensation, she is on the team when she only played half the year, missed the Euros, is still out injured in fact. And won top player in the The Best vote, which makes less sense.

I appreciate the Champions League is a better showcase than the US playoffs, but we are not properly gauging the levels here. I am sure the US league is as good as the better leagues in Europe, the level seems very similar. But perhaps what is required is more teams, and definitely, an official women's clubs competition to start to get competitive games head to head.

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US Soccer released their financials for the fiscal year ending March 2022. As part of their disclosure, they list what they paid their top 5 players (all women) & staff. This is before the new CBA.

Berhalter: $1.6m includes $300k bonus (highest paid USSF employee)

Markgraf (Women GM): $500k
Andonovski: $447k includes $50k bonus

Sonnett: $386k ($172k bonus)
Sauerbrunn: $379k ($166k bonus)
Lloyd: $377k ($166k bonus)
O’Hara: $375k ($161k bonus)
Naeher: $373k ($161k bonus)
 

Looks like base comp for the women players was just over $200k. 

Overall, USSF lost US$24.5 million. Biggest expense was $US96.5 million for their national teams while CSA spent C$16 million on national teams in 2021 (within 10x factor normally applied for US comparisons).

Edited March 1 by red card

[The Ref]

The same way that Concacaf and Conmebol came to an understanding to expand the Copa America men's wil they also do the same for the Copa America women?

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21 hours ago, The Ref said:

The same way that Concacaf and Conmebol came to an understanding to expand the Copa America men's wil they also do the same for the Copa America women?

It's the other way. Concacaf has invited the top four CONMEBOL national teams to participate in the 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup.

The four guest CONMEBOL teams that will participate have been determined based on the results of the 2022 Women’s Copa America: Brazil (champion) Colombia (runner-up), Argentina (third place) and Paraguay (fourth place).

https://www.concacaf.com/news/conmebol-and-concacaf-sign-strategic-collaboration-agreement/

[narduch]

TSN has picked up NWSL rights 

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TSN streamed NWSL a few years ago when ESPN held NWSL rights for basically free. I can't recall any matches on TSN's linear channels during those years while they say some will be shown this year.

Deal is only for 1 year. Twitch's 4 year international deal that expired last year was for a total of US$1 million. So, it shouldn't be a major outlay for TSN.

For viewers, it's going from all free on twitch (ex shown on CBSSN) to paying for a selection of matches if you're not a TSN subscriber. It seems like the rest of the matches can be seen for free on NWSL's website. International ex Canada can see all matches for free.

For NWSL, it looks like a temp solution for international rights till the American rights expire at the end of this year. It gives them the option to offer a global rights deal a la MLS. Reports are surmising NWSL's new deal should rise from its current US$4.5 million CBS deal to more around the $75 million/yr previous deal of MLS.

WNBA's US deal gets them US$27 million/yr that rises to US$33 million by 2025. They're looking for US$100 million in a new deal.

 

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Matildas get the streaming treatment.

 

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Another week, another resignation/firing in woso world. 

FFF’s executive committee had drawn up a report on the situation of its women’s team, and delivered its conclusions on Thursday to seal Corinne Diacre’s fate.

The FFF said the “fracture” between players and hierarchy seemed “irreversible” and was “detrimental to the interests of the national team”.

In a statement to AFP via her lawyer, Diacre claimed she has been “the subject of a smear campaign which is astonishing in its violence and dishonesty”.

 

Edited March 9 by red card

[Rivaldo]

20 hours ago, red card said:

For viewers, it's going from all free on twitch (ex shown on CBSSN) to paying for a selection of matches if you're not a TSN subscriber. It seems like the rest of the matches can be seen for free on NWSL's website. International ex Canada can see all matches for free.

 

Live coverage of NWSL The 2023 season kicks off on March 26.

It's amusing that the press release calls it "the top North American division of women’s soccer" even though it's an American league.

I think this used to be Paramount+'s only sports programming in Canada. Were all matches on Twitch too?

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1 hour ago, Rivaldo said:

Live coverage of NWSL The 2023 season kicks off on March 26.

It's amusing that the press release calls it "the top North American division of women’s soccer" even though it's an American league.

I think this used to be Paramount+'s only sports programming in Canada. Were all matches on Twitch too?

Good eye. They also include Gilles as a player to watch even though it isn't known yet if she will return from her loan.

NWSL wasn't available on P+ in Canada. You could see the handful matches carried on CBS, the 1 or 2 carried every week on CBSSN and the rest on twitch. Radio-Canada streamed about one per month in French in the past couple of years.

An issue was that CBSSN is only carried by Bell Fibe. So, there was some complaining as these matches were geoblocked on twitch in Canada. But as the season progressed last year, everything was put on twitch for Canadian viewers. 

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TSN will show a bit over 70  NWSL games. About 13 will be on their linear channels with half being late night (ET) games.

3 additional games not carried by TSN can be seen on CBS. There will be about 25 games on CBSSN but likely blocked in Canada this year. TSN or TSN+ will show about 10 games that are on CBSSN.

So, the majority of the games will have to be seen via NWSL website or possibly all if TSN games aren't geoblocked. 

With TSN not carrying all games, they're likely paying a nominal amount or getting it free. Showing games on NWSL website means no takers for a 1 year deal on international rights. American rights expire end of this year. So, NWSL is leaving open flexibility to offer global rights.

https://www.nwslsoccer.com/news/nwsl-announces-television-and-streaming-details-for-2023-season-with-all-176-matches-airing-across-cbs-sports-platforms

Edited Wednesday at 09:04 PM by red card

[red card]

Not sure what this signals but ata football is refunding its subscribers and making its streaming service free.

This means you can see some to all the major women's leagues matches for free.

UCL: DAZN Youtube/ata football

WSL: FA Player (50-60% of matches)

NWSL: league website (60%)

Liga F: DAZN Youtube

Serie A/Bundesliga: ata football

D1 France: Radio-Canada (10%); ata football may show certain matches

liga MX: club websites/facebook

FIFA+: various 2nd tier & below leagues

https://www.atafootball.com/

 

Edited Friday at 06:09 PM by red card