March 11, 2023 — A nasty look earlier than a signature occasion

Just a few days in the past, the French Soccer Federation introduced that it could be parting methods with longtime ladies’s nationwide workforce coach Corinne Diacre.

Diacre, who has been in cost since 2017, has run afoul of various gamers in her cost, together with captain Wendie Renard. Renard, and some of her teammates, left the nationwide workforce pool and informed the media of their dissatisfaction with their supervisor.

Final week, a number of members of the Canadian ladies’s nationwide workforce, your present Olympic champions, testified in entrance of the Home of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. They expressed their insecurity that Canada Soccer would come by on their calls for for equal pay with the lads’s workforce.

In the meantime, the seventh-ranked workforce on the earth, Spain, is coping with the aftermath of a participant revolt final fall which has resulted in head coach Jorge Villa dropping 15 veteran gamers from the choice course of.

In lots of locations internationally, ladies’s soccer gamers seem like in a full-on revolt towards their respective nationwide federations, and generally, their coaches.

This dissatisfaction will not be unjustified. These ladies are carrying of being underpaid and generally overcoached compared to a few of their extra profitable counterparts in worldwide ladies’s soccer.

I sincerely hope FIFA takes discover of this. We’re not so distant from the crown-jewel occasion within the ladies’s recreation, the World Cup. And with three of the highest seven groups on the earth rankings in turmoil, it’s not a fantastic look.