Women’s World Cup, Australia and New Zealand: here are the highest-paid women’s footballers in the world
The Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand started on 20 July and will end on 20 August. A month of matches, with Italy playing in Group G together with Argentina – beaten one-nil on debut – Sweden and South Africa
And it will be precisely the Swedes who will be the next opponents of Milena Bertolini’s Azzurri: the match will be played on Saturday morning at 9.30 am and it is hoped that an early passage to the next round can be achieved. Very difficult, of course, but not impossible: in short, the Azzurri are in with a chance. For the past year, moreover, Italian women footballers have also become professionals. So there are rights that were not there before. An enormous step forward for the entire women’s movement in the Bel Paese, even if, it must be said clearly, in terms of salaries we are light years away from the money that circulates in other parts of the world. Normal, no doubt, and frankly we will never get to touch the money that, for example, American female footballers get. More than one has wondered over the years who the highest paid female footballers in the world are. Well, mystery unravelled, Forbes has ranked the top ten.
Women’s World Cup, here are the highest paid
There is a large American predominance. Nine out of ten: the United States are aiming to win their third World Cup in a row and they do so with the knowledge that they are the favourite team. And the salaries are commensurate with the results so far.
Alex Morgan (Lapresse)
We start, then, from the tenth place, occupied by Sofia Huertha, with a salary of 1.3 million dollars. Moving down one position we find Rosa Lavelle, 1.4 million, and then in eighth place is Linesy Horan, with 1.5. In all this ranking, however, there are as mentioned nine Americans. But let us now find out which are the top three in this special ranking. In third place, on the top step of the podium, is the only non-American, namely Alexia Putellas, Barcelona’s Spanish player and two-time Ballon d’Or winner, who has a salary estimated at $4 million. Less than Rapinoe, who takes home 7 million every year, and less than Alex Morgan, who with 7.1 million is the highest paid footballer in the World.