think-progress:

Or, our favorite way of putting it: It would take you 244 YEARS to make the same amount as a CEO. 

I prefer the soccer method of conceptualizing this - a lot of footballers make something in the region of my yearly salary (often twice as much, or more, but still a graspably close amount) in a WEEK. My yearly budget, they take that home every week.

In the case of the CEOs, it looks like they get my yearly salary every… day and a half.

snowshoe:

Oh man, don’t even get me started, their first year they won the Round of 16 leg at home against Arsenal — Arsenal! — and only went out because of an injury time goal. So close to the quarterfinals. And then the next year they got to the same round… and drew Arsenal again. And now what with the mess the main club’s in idk when they’ll get a chance again. :( Anyway for Vero’s sake I will root for Tyreso to qualify, too!

I hadn’t heard about Russia, though, ugh. There’s another ex-perica named Mery Ruiz at Zvezda that I really want to do well but I would be equally happy for her to, um, go somewhere nicer if it comes to that.

argh how come yours are all nice and neat and I can’t get rid of the link and uuuuuugh tumblr. It’s like the ipod touch I inherited from my sister, it senses that I don’t like it and makes life difficult for me. Whatever, I figured out what makes gifs freeze up, I am satisfied.

Aww, what’s happening with the main club? The men stayed up, doesn’t that mean more money and resources and so on? Or do they have to spend all the money on players to keep the dudes in the Primera Division?

Yeah, I’m not… I don’t know THAT much about Russia. Clearly they’re willing to spend some money on women’s soccer, which is good. But Voronezh and Rossiyanka keep bringing in top players just for their CL ties and then letting them go when they get knocked out (unfortunately their league schedule doesn’t overlap with the CL schedule so these ringers play literally one game) which doesn’t really seem like they’re trying to grow women’s football in the country… then again, idk… I seem to remember Vero saying something about Voronezh getting a lot of support and I seem to remember seeing people at the game that I had footage of, so maybe there is local interest. It certainly seems more than averagely sexist though…

But I certainly got the impression that the women who went to Rossiyanka recently - especially Yael Averbuch - did not have an easy time of things. I can’t remember exactly where I read this so I could be completely wrong and it might have just been poor organization rather than deliberate mistreatment but stuff like trouble with accomodations and transportation, getting woken up for trainings that weren’t happening, not being able to do laundry… Anyway, you mess with Yaya, you mess with me. [Of course if we’re criticizing leagues for the way club organizations treated the players, the US hardly has a leg to stand on… altho I’d like to think MJ was very much out of the ordinary.]

Vero seeeeems to have been ok at Voronezh, although I doubt she’d say much if she wasn’t. I certainly get the impression that Tyreso is more fun but that could be a combination of me projecting my desire to move to Sweden, plus being part of a long-term project and playing with Marta and Seger and probably a few more people who speak English, at least. ::coughcough:: not that I spend loads of time speculating about her well-being or how her life is going or worrying about her or anything.

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snowshoe:

ahaha I know right, it’s so weird! Ditto AS. It sounds like we’re mirrorverse people; I like Espanyol because of their men’s team — and Vero — and generally wish them well. And of course I respect them as rivals. >:D (I love how everyone, myself very very much included, has a soft spot for Athletic.)

Still just the champions, yeah. But in part thanks to Rayo’s good performance they’ve moved four slots up the coefficient list and get to go straight to the knock out round now instead of dealing with qualifying! They’re still three slots away from stealing someone else’s second slot but it would be… *checks*… Norway, looks like. XD Russia’s too strong for now…

Ahh, I thought Rayo had been up there lately. At least Spain’s gotten something out of it. Next year I’ll have to root for Barcelona to do well. DDD: Unless they face Arsenal. And Vero still won’t be competing, dammit. Tyreso needs to stay stable with this squad and qualify for next year so they can shake things up amongst Lyon-Potsdam-Frankfurt!!

Oh yeah, Norway’s gone all off the boil! Weird. I just want Russia out because they creep me out and I hear all the ringers they’ve been bringing in for their CL matches have had a rough time of things. :/ God, I can’t believe they’re 4th.

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snowshoe:

It’s a recent development! Marca TV cut a deal to show a match a week for the last few weeks of the season, and I’m hoping they’ve gotten enough of a response that they’ll do the same next year. If you are interested in, perhaps, the former team of a certain Tyresö player, may I recommend the Rayo Vallecano vs Espanyol match from a few weeks ago, which was great for Espanyol. Lianne Sanderson was so good; the first goal was afantasticbackwards overhead kick. *_* (And I say all this as a pained Rayo fan, so I mean it.)

Anyway, the season’s almost over but the Copa de la Reina’s coming up, and it will all be televised, too! So this is perfect timing to start watching if you are so inclined.

(Is it really transparent I just don’t get to talk about this enough? It is, isn’t it.)

Marca is strangely good about covering women’s soccer, aren’t they! And then pretty much everything else is crazed rumormongering and madness. I kind of imagine the WoSoc section standing off to the side just staring sadly at everyone else and shaking their heads.

Anyway, dowloading away! I like Rayo’s men’s team because they have such a strong women’s team but in the Primera Division it’s pretty much all Espanyol (with a soft spot for Athletic, of course).

What’s Spain’s WCL status these days, do you know? Just the champions? XP They need to steal a spot from Russia.

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