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Ben Steiner

MLS, Players’ Union in Tense Negotiations on Club World Cup Prize Money

Seattle Sounders and LAFC players have been vocal about the amount of prize money players will get from the FIFA Club World Cup. | Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images

A week after the Seattle Sounders and the MLS Players Association (MLSPA) voiced their concerns regarding FIFA Club World Cup prize money, little progress has been made, with the two sides in negotiations regarding revisions to the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

Last week, Sounders players wore T-shirts with the words “Club World Cash Grab” on the front during warm-ups, expressing their displeasure with the maximum amount of prize money that players from each of the three MLS clubs— he Sounders, LAFC, and Inter Miami CF—would receive from the Club World Cup. 

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