The other day, Brazil became the next football association to introduce equal pay for all national team players, something that Norway, Australia and New Zealand, among others, have introduced before.
The issue of equal compensation between women and men is also relevant in Sweden after the Discrimination Ombudsman, DO, last week acquitted the Swedish Football Association of wage discrimination in connection with the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019.
Now Kosovar Asllani criticizes SvFF in a long post on his Instagram.
"None of us play for money"
"The fact that the DO did not judge that the compensation model was discriminatory does not mean that it is equal," she writes, among other things, and points out that gender equality is part of the union's values.
"If you ask anyone in the men's and women's national teams, no one would say that they play for the money, none of us do.
It is an honor to represent Sweden and I love every minute.
But it is about respect and the pursuit of equality ”.
"We want to be part of the generation that made a difference for the next generation, the question is whether the union whose equality is a value base really wants it?"
"We want to be involved and change"
According to Asllani, the players in the women's national team were allocated only 24 percent of what the men received.
And when Sweden took the World Cup bronze in France last year, they received only 10 percent of what the men got when they reached the World Cup quarterfinals in 2018, writes Asllani who does not mention any figures.
"It is no news that Fifa and Uefa are far from equal, but I want our union to send signals to Fifa and Uefa that we in Sweden want to be involved in CHANGING the world for the better, as our other Nordic countries have done," he writes. she.
The post has been liked and commented on by large parts of the Swedish women's national team, such as Sofia Jakobsson, Fridolina Rolfö, Caroline Seger, Magdalena Eriksson, Anna Anvegård, Amanda Ilestedt, Jonna Andersson, Olivia Schough, Hanna Bennison, Elin Rubensson, Anna Oscarsson and Linda Sembrant.
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"Women can take a seat"