The new national team manager in women’s football thus receives a third as much as the men’s national team manager. news has shown this through several cases this week. For Hege Riise, this means around NOK 1.7 million, based on what football president Lise Klaveness explained at the press conference at Ullevaal on Wednesday, where the appointment was announced. Ståle Solbakken, for his part, confirms a salary level of around NOK five million to news on Thursday. The NFF later confirmed the salaries of both coaches. Riise has an annual salary of NOK 1.67 million, while Solbakken earns five million a year with the possibility of bonus payments of up to NOK one million depending on what the match results are throughout the year. So far nothing is fine. And the Minister for Equality reacts. Which to an extent is also her job. But here, apparently, there are also obvious reasons for that. REACTED: Minister of Culture and Equality Anette Trettebergstuen. Photo: Torstein Bøe / NTB This also appears even more clearly in a way when it is now a woman’s situation that is set against her male counterpart. For a Norwegian national football team manager is a Norwegian national football team manager is a Norwegian national football team manager. There are roughly similar jobs, with roughly comparable professional challenges, responsibilities and expectations. For both Ståle Solbakken and Hege Riise, the employer’s obvious hope is that they will take Norway to the playoffs in the upcoming championships. The workload and the estimated travel load are also comparable. So the salary is definitely not. But if it doesn’t immediately feel right, it is to the highest degree logical. The commercial power The Norwegian Football Association is a democratic and member-led organisation, where the fight against all forms of discrimination within sport is one of the priority challenges. But the Norwegian Football Association is also a powerful commercial player. Businesses are best run in fairly simplified terms by making sure that the cash flow out is just so great that it contributes to making the cash flow in as large as possible. In this context, this means in practice employing the coaches for the flagships of the NFF, the national teams, who obtain the results that bring the greatest possible income. And pay them accordingly. The financial potential for the NFF is particularly great on the men’s side. It concerns rights money in connection with TV agreements. It is about sponsors. It is about qualifying for the championship. If Ståle Solbakken manages this, it is his salary that will appear undeservedly low. Such is the market. GET MORE SALARY: National team manager for the men’s national team Ståle Solbakken. Photo: Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB The same distinction in Sweden When Sweden in 2019 qualified for the European Championship for men which was finally held two years later, the Swedish federation immediately received an extra income of over NOK 100 million. For national team manager Janne Andersson, it gave a bonus of just under two million kroner, which raised his annual salary to around six million kroner. The results since have not been as impressive. Nevertheless, his salary of just over four million kroner last year is more than double what his colleague Peter Gerhardsson, who in the past year has led the Swedish women to both the Olympic final and European Championship semi-final, is paid after bonuses and contract extension. Because even a semi-final place in the EC only gives the Swedish association around NOK 15 million, i.e. less than 15 percent of what their male national team received just to qualify. This affects how much one is willing to pay their national team manager for the women. In Sweden, too, market forces define their own form of justice. Enormous English pay gap In England, the differences are even greater, bordering on grotesque. Gareth Southgate, who took the England men to their first ever European Championship final on home soil last year, signed a new contract in November. GIANT SALARY: National team manager for the men’s team for England. Photo: MATTHEW CHILDS / Reuters With that, his annual salary increased from approx. NOK 35 million to around 60. Before bonuses. Sarina Wiegman, the coach who took the English women one step further and earned their nation their first ever EC gold in football, earns around five million kroner per year, i.e. less than ten percent of her male colleague. In addition, she received a bonus of around half of this for the EC triumph. But the debate is already raging in England that this is the time when their football association, the FA, must also take action when it comes to reducing the differences in salaries for the two national team coaches. They will continue to be huge anyway. Historic bonus agreement Hege Riise herself said that she had no qualms about immediately accepting the salary she was offered. WANTS DEBATE: Lise Klaveness admits that it doesn’t feel quite right to give Riise a significantly lower salary. Photo: Trond Reidar Teigen / NTB The idea of a radical and immediate equalization of the salary level between the two equal national team coaches is nevertheless enticing. In 2017, the players on the two Norwegian national teams also entered into a historic agreement, which gave female and male Norwegian national team players equal bonuses. This should indicate that the same is possible among the coaches. And that Hege Riise should also earn his five million kroner a year. But the world is not like that. It is quite true that Solbakken earns three times as much as Riise. All thoughts about immediate equalization are disconnected from the reality the national team players live in. Many kinds of justice There are still few players in the Norwegian Toppserien who earn much more than NOK 100,000. Certain stars are said to have been paid around half a million kroner a year, but these are the exceptions. In several of the clubs, wages are not even paid. Even the best players in the English women’s super league do not earn more than around NOK 2 million. Their male opposites, including Norway’s own star Erling Braut Haaland, should, by comparison, earn up to NOK 3-400 million a year. Also in the Eliteserien, for the first time in several years, there are players who earn four to five million kroner a year. And is therefore on a level comparable to national team manager Solbakken, who otherwise more than halved his salary when he left FC Copenhagen and took over Norway. Having a national team coach on the women’s side who, on the other hand, should earn more than ten times the highest paid domestic players would in all likelihood be even more provocative than her colleague on the men’s side earning considerably more. The fight for a gradual equalization will hopefully be helped by the huge increase in the popularity of women’s football internationally. But in the short term, the difference is unfortunately nothing more than cynical logic. Because if this is not mathematical justice, it is actually a form of relativity justice. Now it is up to Hege Riise to perform so well with his national team that the debate continues. And flares up again the day she succeeds Ståle Solbakken as national team coach for the Norwegian men. As the first woman. For triple salary.
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