d12 EZ SU the washington post.thursday, february 20 , 2020
nuses. Jay Berhalter, the chief
commercial and strategy officer,
was close to $800,000.
flynn retired l ast year, and Ber-
halter, older brother of the men’s
coach, is leaving t his month.
others were on a pay scale high-
er than Ellis’s in 2018.
Ta b ramos, the former under-
20 men’s coach and youth techni-
cal director, made $ 460,000. He i s
now coaching mLS’s Houston Dy-
namo.
Earnie Stewart received
$291,667 of base salary in six
months as the m en’s g eneral man-
ager; he had been hired midway
through the year. Stewart, a for-
mer national team player, is now
the USSf’s s porting director, over-
seeing the men’s a nd women’s p ro-
grams.
The salaries of men’s general
manager Brian mcBride and
women’s Gm Kate markgraf were
not listed on the latest tax form
because they were hired in the
past six months.
[email protected]mediation between the wom-
en’s p layers a nd USSf broke d own
in August.
Last w eek, t he union represent-
ing the men’s national team play-
ers spoke out in support of the
women, saying the USSf “has
been working very hard to sell a
false narrative to the public and
even to members of Congress.
They have been using this false
narrative a s a weapon against c ur-
rent and former members” of the
women’s team.
In response, the USSf said,
“our goal is to determine fair and
equitable compensation for our
USmNT and USWNT, while also
being mindful of how and where
we invest our overall financial
resources so that we can continue
to focus on investing in the devel-
opment of our players, coaches
and referees at a ll levels.”
The 2018 tax form also shows
chief executive Dan flynn was the
USSf’s highest-paid a ctive em-
ployee that year at almost
$900,000 in base salary and bo-no has pledged to double the
women’s p rize money for t he 2023
tournament.
revenue generated by the
men’s and women’s competitions
is complicated because fIfA bun-
dles such things as TV rights and
sponsorship deals.
Global viewership of the 2018
men’s tournament (64 matches)
was three times higher than the
2019 women’s competition
(52 games), though for the first
time, the Women’s World C up s ur-
passed 1 billion viewers over four
weeks.
The lawsuit filed by the U.S.
women’s players against the fed-
eration concerns broader issues;
the players say there is inequitable
compensation and support com-
pared with t he men’s p rogram.
The teams, h owever, have sepa-
rate collective bargaining agree-
ments, and t he men do not receive
base salaries. most of the men’s
earnings come from contracts
with professional clubs around
the world.lion, tax records show.
The 2018 records also show full-
time players on the women’s t eam
received about $170, 000 in base
salary (for playing for both the
U.S. squad and a National Wom-
en’s Soccer League team) and up
to $146,000 in bonuses, tied to
appearances, performance incen-
tives and qualifying for the World
Cup.
The rewards for winning the
World Cup are dictated by the
collective bargaining agreement
between the players and federa-
tion. Those figures have not been
disclosed but r eportedly top out at
$110,0 00 a piece.
fIfA, the sport’s global govern-
ing body, paid $30 million in bo-
nuses at the Women’s World Cup
last year, including $4 million to
the winner.
That was twice as much as in
2015 but still a fraction of what the
men received in 2018: $400 mil-
lion overall, led by champion
france w ith $38 million.
fIfA President Gianni Infanti-year.
In t he run-up to the World Cup,
she received another raise, which
did not fall within the time-frame
of the latest tax records. Estimates
placed her base salary at
$500,000. She did not receive a
bonus for success in the World
Cup qualifying tournament but
did earn considerable bonuses for
winning the World Cup.
Those figures, as well as new
coach Vlatko Andonovski’s salary,
will appear on next year’s tax re-
cords.
England’s Phil Neville is be-
lieved to be the second-highest-
paid women’s coach in recent
years with a base salary of at least
$350,000.
The highest-paid U.S. coach in
2018, though, was someone long
out of a job: Jurgen Klinsmann,
the men’s boss who was fired in
fall 2016. Because he had a long-
term contract, the federation had
to make payments of $3.35 mil-
lion in 2017 and $1.475 million in
2018, totaling more than $4.8 mil-Bruce Arena collected
$1.2 75 million ($900,000 base sal-
ary) for 91 / 2 months of work i n 2017
before stepping down after the
U.S. men’s team failed to qualify
for the 2018 World Cup in russia.
He received a $ 300 ,000 settle-
ment.
Between Arena’s departure and
Berhalter’s appointment, interim
coach Dave Sarachan made about
$240,000 from January through
November 2018, t ax records show.
The U.S. men have not ad-
vanced past the World Cup’s
round of 16 since 2002 , though the
number of fully invested pro-
grams in the men’s game dwarfs
the women’s game and the path-
way to a World Cup berth is much
more difficult for the American
men.
Ellis, who stepped aside last
year after 5^1 / 2 years of service and
consecutive World Cup titles, had
a base salary of $291,029 in 2017
and close to $390,000 the next
U.S. Soccer from D1
Taxes show U.S. Soccer spends much more on men’s coaches than on women’s
ASSOCIATED PRESSTimo Werner led Leipzig to its
first Champions League knock-
out stage victory, netting a penal-
ty to seal a 1-0 victory over host
To ttenham in the first leg of their
round-of- 16 meeting Wednesday.
A clumsy tackle by To ttenham
defender Ben Davies on Konrad
Laimer led to the penalty that
Werner converted in the
58th minute for his 26 th goal of
the season.
Such was the dominance of
Leipzig — particularly in the first
half in north London — that it
was the German visitors who
looked the more established
Champions League side rather
than last season’s b eaten finalists.
To ttenham’s frustration was
encapsulated by Dele Alli flinging
his boot on the ground in annoy-
ance while walking to the bench
after being substituted.
To ttenham, which played with-
out injured strikers Harry Kane
and Son Heung-min, was already
trailing at that point, and it tookgoing behind to find the goal
threat absent in the first half.
Giovani Lo Celso curled a free
kick against the post and Lucas
moura headed wide on a night
when To ttenham’s shortage of
attacking options was exposed.
The second leg is march 10....
Hans Hateboer scored twice as
Atalanta beat Valencia, 4-1, in the
first leg of the round of 16, putting
the Italian team on the verge of a
quarterfinal spot in its first sea-
son in the Champions League.
About a third of the 120,000
people who live in Bergamo were
present at milan’s San Siro stadi-
um to see Hateboer, Josip Ilicic
and remo freuler score for Atal-
anta. Substitute Denis Cheryshev
scored a consolation goal for
Valencia to give the Spanish team
a glimmer of hope ahead of the
second leg march 10.
l eNGLAND: To the backdropof some aggressive anti-UEfA
chants and banners, manchester
City beat West Ham, 2-0, in the
Premier League in its first match
since it was banned from Europe-
an competitions for the next two
seasons for breaking financial
monitoring rules and failing to
cooperate with investigators.
City denies wrongdoing — and
will appeal the decision to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport —
and its fans made their feelings
known throughout the game at
Etihad Stadium, chanting songs
overtly in support of the team
and against European soccer’s
governing body.
“UEfA mafia,” read one sign
held up by City fans. one of the
expletive-laden chants by home
supporters included the line,
“We’ll see you in court.”...
marcus rashford’s season and
European Championship ambi-
tions could be over after man-
chester United manager ole Gun-
nar Solskjaer said the striker will
be out for at least “another few
months” with a back injury.soCCer rounduPGermans take Champions League leg
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totteNhAM 0nickname “Baby Shaq,” i n refer-
ence to former NBA star Shaquille
o’Neal. Like o’Neal, the 6-foot- 1
Watts commanded the block and
wore a large shoe size (men’s 12).
Watts made a name for herself
around the county Jan. 31 when
she posted 26 points, 27 rebounds
and seven steals in a win over
meade.
“I felt amazing,” Watts said. “I
was very surprised.”
Watts’s emergence has been
crucial because old mill (19-1,
16-0 Anne Arundel) graduated
star forward Sydney faulcon
from last year’s squad that fell to
C.H. flowers in the maryland 4A
championship game. Wednes-
day’s matchup was a tuneup for
Saturday, when old mill and
South river (17-5, 13-3) will meet
again for the county champion-
ship.
“We’re always expecting to be
competitive,” Smith said. “But we
didn’t know we would be any-
where near where we are right
now.”
[email protected]just has the mentality to go to the
basket.”
Smith didn’t see that savvy
when he watched Watts during an
AAU scrimmage last summer in
owings mills, md. He did notice
potential, though, and foresaw
her as an immediate varsity play-
er.
Watts began playing basketball
when she was around 8 years old,
and within a year her mother,
Nadia, could tell her daughter
was a standout talent. During a
recreational league game when
Watts was about 12, she scored 21
of her team’s 22 points, leading it
to back-to-back league titles.
“The first day of [varsity] prac-
tice she was nervous,” Nadia
Watts said. “I just kept telling her,
‘I know you have what it takes.
Don’t even worry about it.’”
After a few weeks of practice,
Watts’s teammates gave her theBY KYLE MELNICKAbout a half-hour before the
old mill girls’ basketball team
played South river on Wednes-
day evening, forward Amani
Watts and her teammates stood
on the Patriots’ sideline and
watched the end of their school’s
junior varsity game.
That’s t he game Watts expected
to be playing in when she tried
out for the Patriots as a freshman
this past fall. Instead, Watts made
varsity, and she has left little
doubt she belongs.
old mill entered this past off-
season with uncertainty after
graduating key seniors, but Watts
has led the Patriots to the Anne
Arundel County regular season
title. on Wednesday, she posted a
team-high 24 points in No. 15 old
mill’s 65-58 win in millersville.
“Every game she seems like
she’s getting better, if that’s possi-
ble,” old mill Coach rick Smith
said. “If you’re not double-team-
ing her down on the block, she’s
pretty much going to score. She
anne arundel County girls’ basketball
‘Baby Shaq’ helps lift Patriots to win
old Mill 65,
South river 58