The Canadian Football Association has gone through major changes. Earlier this week, the president of the association submitted his resignation after serious complaints from the women’s team, mainly in terms of investment and salary, and now he can go down in history, find out the details.

Canada’s team changes

At a meeting after the representative’s resignation, Federation General Secretary Earl Cochrane issued a statement with the intentions of the new administration. In the text, he said, “it’s about respect, dignity and leveling competitive aspects in a substantially unequal world”.

In the notice, it is also possible to verify the presence of a new global collective agreement. The board says it will involve both teams and aims to negotiate an interim bond that maintains the primary goal of creating a base of pay equity.

Nick Bontis’s resignation came in a statement on Tuesday (28), where he defended himself against accusations: “although he was one of the greatest advocates of an egalitarian system associated with performance in the competitions, unfortunately I will not be the head of the federation when that happens »>

Crisis that led to the resignation

In early February, the Canadian women’s team came together and created a protest to bring greater visibility to the lack of funding and gender inequality. The protest was quickly supported by the men’s team, including stars Stephen Eustáquio of FC Porto and Steven Vitória of Desportivo Chaves.

The Canadian national team recently won gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and has a big star in Cloé Lacasse, who plays for Benfica. According to team captain Christine Sinclair, the federation distributes more than 11 million Canadian dollars a year to the men’s team, and only 5 million to the women’s team.