Investigation Reveals Cartelization in Women’s Professional Soccer League in Colombia

Again the Women’s Professional Soccer League He has a magnifying glass on the cartelization that is said to be taking place. This time the complaint was made by representative Catherine Juvinao, from Alianza Verde, who was He pointed directly to Dimayor and the clubs football professionals illegally and frankly unconstitutionally standardizing a contractual model that would jeopardize the players’ labor rights.

The conference revealed five conclusions that would explain the unfavorable conditions for female athletes, showing the different treatment compared to the rules of a game of men who, like them, are particularly committed to that sport.

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First, Juvinao pointed out that in terms of the length of the contracts, “The clubs established very similar length terms to those identified by DIMAYOR”whereby “professional players have two-month contracts, which is how long the league lasts on average” and if their team is kicked out of the league, their contract expires in some cases , while l.Human lifespan is two to three years on average.

In addition, the clubs would have set salary limits and ranges for the players “because DIMAYOR would have ‘called for responsibility’ so that the clubs would not pay ‘high salaries'”, so The most a professional player can earn, according to these contracts, is 4 million pesos per month.

The majority of women earn the minimum monthly salary in that sport, while men earn an average of 53 million per month, according to research by the Director of Business and Trade.

“DIMAYOR promoted the use of the image of the players so that the use of their image for advertising was included in the contracts without recognizing additional salary, when more than half of the professional football players are female earning between 1 and 2 million pesos. This fragile value includes their services as professional players and also all the information in their profile. On the other hand, players in the men’s league take part in negotiating their wages and image rights.”he added.

Finally, the representative questioned the decision of the directors of professional football not to make efforts to promote the Women’s League, saying that The treatment taking place would indicate “open sexual bias.”

“Surprisingly, the leaders of the FCF, DIMAYOR and professional women’s football clubs have refused to receive funds and financial support for the promotion and development of women’s football, both from the public and private sector. MinDeporte agreed to 1,500 million pesos but managers warned that they would be receiving money from the National Government “This could lead to the need to be accountable to the control bodies” and that “this was a very big drain,” he concluded.

The Congresswoman asked the Director General of Industry and Trade, Cielo Rusinquespeed in the investigations, being sure that the case would be stopped from the moment it reached that entity, warning that it could end without authorization.