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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 19.12.2010as 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 .