Between Alisha Lehmann and Douglas Luiz, the salary differential is even beyond a hundred thousand.
Alisha Lehmann, the Swiss player transferred this summer to Juventus, recently highlighted the salary gap that persists between professional football players. During an interview with La Repubblica, she said she was shocked by the difference in pay with her partner, Douglas Luiz, also a new member of Juventus.
Alisha Lehmann was moved by the salary difference with her companion
Both athletes left Aston Villa this summer to join the Italian club, marking a unique pair transfer. However, their arrival in Turin was not marked in the same way. While Luiz has already gone five games in Serie A without recording a decisive contribution, Lehmann, meanwhile, has scored one goal in four appearances for the Bianconere women’s team, currently leading the league.
Despite their shared success, the women’s football star did not hesitate to denounce pay inequality. According to some English sources, Lehmann would receive around $200,000 per year, a salary far removed from the $9.2 million that Luiz would receive annually. “We do the same job, but he earns a hundred thousand times more than me”Lehmann said, adding that it remains “a long way to go” to achieve true equity in sport.
The most popular female footballer is a voice that carries and counts
Followed by more than 17 million people on Instagram, Lehmann is a popular figure, surpassing even Swiss icons such as Roger Federer in number of followers. It certainly benefits from sponsorship contracts with prestigious brands like Prime and EA Sports, but this does not compensate for the salary gap with men on the ground.
Despite this growing notoriety, she emphasizes that she leads a simple life, saying: “I live a normal life. I go home, I cook, I do the same things as everyone else. » A normality, however, that is harder to maintain, whose voice is becoming increasingly louder and which is spearheading a fight aimed at, if not immediate equality between men and women in football, at least already being achieved. bring them closer together, to reduce the still very significant gaps.
