ICS Working Papers Nº1/2014

ICS

W O R K I N G P A P E R S

2014

returned home to São Paulo in 2009, playing for FC Santos during two seasons

until she was recruited by the Russian first division club Rossiyanka following

the WWC 2011 together with three other Brazilian national team players. At

counting on players from Brazil, the USA, Sweden, Ukraine, Romenia and

South Africa, Rossiyankas team roster is currently one of the most diverse in

terms of nationalities while the Russian first division at large integrates players

from 18 different countries. In contrast, the new professional women’s league in

England is comprised of Anglophone players only albeit also diverse in terms of

nationalities.

[17] See ‘Brazil to set up women's soccer league’. Sports . People's Daily, 29

September

2002

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90779/6274126.html.

Download 19.12.2010 as well as ‘Brazil will create women soccer cup’. Sports .

People's

Daily,

29

September

2007:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90779/6274148.html. Download 19.12.2010 .

‘ Peladonas! Jogadoras tiram a roupa na Espanha. Veja! ’. Agência Futebol

Interior, no date: http://www.futebolinterior.com.br/news.php?id_news=22398 .

Download 25 January 2010.

[18] Accordingly to conversations among migrant players, exceptional top wages in

Brazil for national squad players normally do not exceed some 800 Euro (2000

Real) per month. In the German Frauenbundesliga , which appears to be the

wealthiest women’s leagues worldwide the wages of only three top players were

estimated as numbering over 100.000 Euro per year. Another eight best paid

German players receive at average 62.500 Euro per year. For the English semi-

professional Women’s Super League (WSL), set up in summer 2011, the clubs

have all signed up to a salary cap, stipulating that no club can pay more than four

of its players over £20.000 (24.000 Euro in January 2012) . While we lack

reliable updated information on wages in Sweden, sources from 2006 and 2008

indicated very low average wages for local players (5.500 Euro per year in 2006,

6.228 in 2008), while migrant players received more (bloggers assumed that

Marta earned 11 times more than the average wage of local players). Sources:

The

Guardian

2008:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/oct/05/womensfootball.ussport.

Spiegel Online 2011 :

http://www.spiegel.de/sport/0,1518,770013,00.html .

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