Canada Soccer: Compensation offer made to national teams
Canada Soccer says it has made a brand new compensation supply to its males’s and ladies’s nationwide groups.
“Whereas we are going to proceed to barter confidentially with our males’s nationwide staff — as a prepared and respectful accomplice — we’re joyful to tell the general public {that a} revised proposal was despatched on 23 June 2022,” Canada Soccer said in a statement Monday. “We stay assured that an settlement might be made sooner or later.”
The governing physique additionally stated a proposal was made the identical day to the ladies’s staff, saying “each side are working collaboratively in the direction of an settlement.”
Canada Soccer stated it’s wanting “to equalize issues associated to compensation for the participant pool, journey coverage, and the configuration of high-performance environments” between the 2 groups.
The Canadian males refused to play a pleasant towards Panama in Vancouver final month, citing “unnecessarily extended” negotiations over a brand new contract. The gamers stated they wished a bigger piece of World Cup prize cash and a “complete family and friends package deal” for the match that kicks off in November in Qatar.
On Monday, Canada Soccer additionally confirmed that the boys’s staff will play a pair of worldwide friendlies in Europe on Sept. 23 and 27.
“Canada Soccer is within the remaining phases of the contract course of and might be asserting its opponents quickly,” it stated.
The plan can also be to have one remaining preparation match in November, with opposition and placement to be introduced later.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed July 4, 2022.
