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Frank de Boer’s equal pay comments are unfounded and uninformed

Since the middle of yesterday afternoon Frank de Boer has been at the center of the equal pay discussion in soccer after an interview with the Guardian. In it, he said to Chris Fuhrmeister about the topic:

‘“I think for me, it’s ridiculous,” De Boer says of the policy. “It’s the same like tennis. If there are watching, for the World Cup final, 500 million people or something like that, and 100 million for a women’s final, that’s a difference. So it’s not the same. And of course they have to be paid what they deserve to [earn] and not less, just what they really deserve.