Meet the first female soccer player to sign $1.5M contract in the US
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2024
- María Sánchez is one of the most sought-after soccer players in the U.S., recently becoming the first player to sign a $1.5 million contract in the National Women's Soccer League - but her journey to soccer glory is unlike most. NBC’s Emilie Ikeda reports for TODAY.
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Mexican immigrant living in California I still believe in the American Dream.
Great story about Maria Sanchez this really motivate me to come across daily boundaries in life.
Saludos amigos!
Pero hermano a María nadie le dió una oportunidad en EEUU, ella tuvo que viajar a las visorias que estaba haciendo México en California para poder realizar sus sueños de ser futbolista profesional 🤷.
Yo no lo llamaría exactamente "sueños americano", pero igual te deseo la mejor de las suertes desde México para que alcances tus metas.
Congrats Maria!!! You have 2 countries rooting for you.
We all cheering for you Maria! I will share your journey with my 2 beautiful young daughters. Sky's the limit!!!
No one cares😂
@@cursedriddlerI car just because she is Mexican if she was white I wouldn't care
hard work pays off! she deserves it! 100 percent. 👏👏👏
Congratulations Maria. 👋👩⚽
Good for Maria, well deserved. She's paving the way for the next generation of female professional athletes.
Eso Bombi! 💣 So proud & glad I get to see her play now in SD! 🫶🏽 🇲🇽 🌊
Amazing! Im glad her work paid off and she’s getting the recognition she deserves
We need a documentary/movie on this!🤔 Bravo Maria🔥🔥
We love Maria! $1.5million is just the start for the young superstar! 🤩
They said 28 year old. She ain’t young anymore 😂
Go Women's sports!! It's about time!! Congratulations on your accomplishments.
It makes a difference when more people start watching women play sports. That’s how these pro athletes get the big contacts. I hope more women take note of this and support their athletes, instead of watching the Kardagians and the Real Housewives of nowhere.
More people are watching? I doubt it. But if 1 million were watching and a few more people watch it because they want to see some legs, well yeah more people are watching. However, she's being given that contract not because she's worth watching but to make it look like women football is worth watching. She's over valued.
@@krooge111 t
Some networks have actually taken interest in broadcasting women’s soccer in their platforms, which proves more people are watching the sport. There is no doubt the sport is not getting large ratings when compared to other sports. However, there is a growing interest. How far will that growth go? Nobody knows yet.
Women who like sports will watch. With the increase in talent and more competitive games, more people, including men who like sports, will watch. It's obvious that there is a growing interest in women's sports, as we see more female athletes get endorsement deals and name recognition that is based on their talent instead of their physical appeal to men.
@@krooge111 “legs”? What? Just stop projecting.
Arriba Mexico cab…..es,q sigan los éxitos
shes a fantastic player. happy for her.
This is kind of awkward now, because she recently demanded to be traded away from the Houston Dash where she plays now and during this interview.
That's funny 😂
What a story!! Love her passion for the game!!
Love to see my raza win!!! LFGSD!!!
Maria Sanchez 💚
love her 🇲🇽
love it. way to go!
She's a American representing her mexican culture
María represents her Mexican roots
@@mau7359 dijiste lo mismo lol
@@edzzz5043
Dije algo similar pero no lo mismo 😅, raíces y cultura pueden ser cosas diferentes dependiendo del contexto.
Dices que María es americana lo cual es verdad, pero solo como dato:
Es curioso porque ella siempre se identifica a sí misma como mexicana, nunca la he escuchado decirse así misma americana 🤷, ni siquiera se llama así misma méxico americana como muchos se identifican 🤷. ✌️
@mau7359 no estan Mexicana para mudarse a mexico y vivir hay. Es mas, el Español de ella tiene muchos dialectos latino Americano.. muchos dicen tener orgullo pero no dejaran Estados Unidos por su Segunda patria.. lo que la hace, Americana!! Gracias
@@edzzz5043
Osea que para ser mexicano hay que vivir en México? 👉🤡👈.
Guillermo del Toro, Salma Hayek, Eiza González, Melissa Barrera etc. No son mexicanos porque no viven en México? Que argumento más infantil el tuyo 🫵🤣, además María juega en la NWSL como va a vivir en México? Piensa un poco.
Además su español tiene dialectos de Latinoamérica?
Lo que en realidad quisiste decir es que su español es NEUTRO, eso no es raro, habemos muchos latinoamericanos que tenemos español NEUTRO, así nos educan al hablar, sin modismos.
Por último en el caso de María México no es su "segunda patria" ni la primera, México para ella es "su madre patria" ya que en México está su origen étnico y cultural, así como para México la "madre patria" es España.
Las clases que te doy son gratis amigo ✌️👉🤡
$1.5mill and I've never heard of her.. that's crazy. I'm gonna tune in now.
Love this!
She was already in a pro team before going to the us and didn’t even mention it. Do your research before publishing
Excellent she and all women athletes deserve a good contract,even our college athletes,
Of course she Mexican she a beast
That’s right Sista ! ….that’s my Cousin, we got the Same Last Name 😁🇺🇸🇲🇽
Thank you for appreciating all that you have and the opportunities you're getting unlike the locker room cancer known as Pinoe...
I like to remind people that the first Women’s official World Cup was in 1991 and the games were only 80 minutes because the world actually believed that women could not endure the same amount of play . We have come a long way. I hope I live to see much more.
love to see it
no pay to play!! there is hope for US Soccer.
Until Diana Ordonez showed up and stole her thunder at Houston. She ran.
It seems so wrong that she signed a big deal and then wanted to flee elsewhere.
Honest question here, I’ve only ever seen her play for the Mexican national team and there are better strikers than her on that team. Is she that good in the league? I’m curious and would like to watch her play for club, not sure where or how tho
I went to the ladys lafc team,my first womens game and it was pretty dope not as much as fhe mens but great
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Awesome.
Women are stronger in their legs than in their upper body; arms and shoulders. Soccer could be one of the few sports that a mix league is possible where both men and women could compete on the same team.
hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha....sure!
Well I that's true then they should allow trans athletes to compete in women football.
Wishful thinking
@@daconnoisseurrex1752 Mix doubles in tennis was first introduce in the Olympics in 1996.
insane!
Nothing personal, so proud of her and what she manage to achieve!! just wonder if she is worth a $1.5M contract, how much somebody like Aitana Bonmati will demand if she ever decide to play in US?
Well obviously more duh. But she isn’t aitana…
Maria thank you for being a hard worker and showing all the pieces of 💩 that us Latinos are unstoppable once we set a goal. VIVA MEXICO AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
So it appears she is representing Mexico in international competitions.
And? A lot of it is political. Maybe she was not offered to play for the U.S or offer to be benched. Lots of players with dual citizenships choose based on where they feel they can maximize their potential. Once you play for one side, it’s hard to switch even if you want to. I heard Zlatan wanted to play for Bosnia first, they didn’t offer him what he wanted and they were quite arrogant. He was not the star he would later become. So he chose Sweden who gave him more.
@@bosnianlady10
María herself said that she grew up watching the Mexican team on television with her dad in Idaho.
From there, her desire to play for the Mexican team since she was a child was born.
If María had wanted, she could have changed her team. Sofía Huerta first played for the Mexican team and then transferred to the United States team.
@@mau7359 ok that’s fine. I don’t know her story, I was just giving a possible reason. Still there might be aspects that she doesn’t admit publicly. That fine too. But I do not it is not just that easy to switch teams. It has to be approved. Lots of players have dual citizenship and if they don’t want to allow too much switching. New updates make it easier but there is a criteria.
In particular, FIFA has added three new exceptions whereby a player may change the national team they play for.
First, it is now possible for a player to change national team even if they have played competitively at senior level, provided:
the player held the nationality of their new association at the time of their first official appearance for their first national team.
the player played in no more than three competitive senior games before the age of 21.
the player has not played in the final stage of an official tournament such as the World Cup, European Championship, Copa America etc.
at least three years have passed since the player's last senior appearance for their previous national team.
@@bosnianlady10
It's funny because María did meet the requirements to change her selection, but she still didn't change.
María would have her own reasons why she stayed with Mexico, but I think it is because thanks to Mexico she was able to become a professional player.
On the other hand, it is not unusual for a Mexican-American to prefer playing with Mexico rather than with the United States. When the Mexican team plays in the United States, the stadiums are filled with Mexican-Americans supporting Mexico.
By the way, I didn't know the information about Zlatan Ibrahimovic, what Bosnia missed
I love seeing Latinos prosper
l love seeing PEOPLE prosper
Noqueno! Awebo
Those bars will bankrupt in about 3 months
👏👏👍💪
Cool
If women can watch the men and apply what they do and perfect it, this would be just the beginning of big money to come.
Unlike the WNBA, I expect women's soccer leagues to expand and grow. I expect them to make more and more money over time. $1.5 is still relatively small considering it's the largest contract. But the sport is fun to watch. The girls put on a pretty good show. Also, for the most part, they just get on with the games. There isn't an attempt to shame people into watching them because they are women, like the WNBA does.
I hope after the World cup 2026 y'all start taking football serious in America
I just wonder where are they going to get that money, from the MLS
Alex Morgan's future replacement
$he'll will be heavily marked😳🤯🤕
All about females being proper role models for little girls
She’s one of the highest paid female soccer player, while one of the highest paid soccer players worth over $400M.
Let’s that sink in for a sec…
What are you saying!? speak english
@@user-fi2xt1yz5wi think he says a female player gets 1.5 million, while a male player get 400 million contract.
Economics at play
Equal pay for all. All her teammates should receive the same pay 😂
So the men's league can stop paying for their games.
the nwsl isnt owned by the mls what are you on about? the nwsl is controlled by the us federation..
@@DannyCosmos he’s insecure so has to be a hater to feel better
same guy who is on assistance lol
So are they both Mexican born. Is that why she’s plays for Mexico and not the U.S ?
And she’s playing for another team! 😂😂😂🤦🏻♂
football*
Good. Get that money! These billionaires been short changing everyone
I wonder if she gonna have haters like Caitlin Clark. People tryna tell us some other soccer player should have got rhe money because blah blah blah
What is this PR stunt? I watch women's soccer all the time and never heard of this board. This is a stunt
Lol 😂😂😂😂
😅😅😅
Dang! She left Tigres for a US soccer team? That’s a downgrade.
Not it's not, nwsl is top 3 league in the world for women's soccer
Hahahahahaha.... Yeah right!!! Y no mames!!
@@El_Chaquetas it's a fact not an opinion 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Liga MX femenil is not at the level nwsl is at 🤣. All the best players come out of nwsl.
Who? 😂
Wait and she doesn’t even represent the us woman soccer
Football* not soccer
This must be a joke, right?
I don't care
Shes a non rare gold tho iykyk 😂
Too bad she ain't doing much for SD lol
Sponsored by the men's team revenue.
“American soccer” hahahahaha!!!
so is everyone in the mexican national team actually americans that couldnt make it to the us womens team? lol
only someone who has no idea what they're talking about laughs like a fool 👉🤡
The majority of the players on the Mexican national team are born and educated in Mexico.
Even the Mexican American players who play for the Mexican national team have trained professionally in Mexico, they have never played in the United States professionally.
María Sánchez has said in interviews that she never tried to join the United States team
How could Maria be rejected when she never tried to join the United States team?
@@mau7359 bro most of the team was born in the u.s and they dont even speak spanish.. not all fine. but lots. just saying..
maria and ordonez are mexicos top players right now. BUT, give it a few more years and that wont be the case. The mexican women are getting better faster. With that said, sanchez is good enough to make the USA team. I still think she has alot to improve on, she is not as good as she should be.
@@DannyCosmos
I insist you are wrong, the majority of the players who are part of the Mexican team were born in Mexico
The day will come that the mens team will be made up of people from North of the border.
She is stuck up and not that good she demanded to be traded from the last place team Houston because she wasn't good enough to get them out of last place.
Way way OVER RATED AND OVERPAID!!!
She is the BIG DUD for H. Dash now they finally got the lucky chance to get rid of her to the Waves, at least they don’t have to face the unwilling and unproductive player that they themselves are snubbed by paying her that much!!!
I wonder the Waves has to honor that contract to have her playing for them? If they do then I’ll see how would she perform for their team? Pay or not, everyone will get to see Maria Sanchez in Waves lineup soon! Good luck San Diego!!!🌹⚽️🇺🇸👍🤩
I do believe they have to pay her, something about NWSL holds all the contracts, so yeah Wave does have to pay it. Is she overrated, absolutely, who ever signed that contract is smoking. I would say she is a star for usa and mexico fans, so It does make sense for her to get paid more. I do also think she was a DUD for Houston, she definetly went from being the star player, to being a ghost on the field...
Waste of money
It’s NOT soccer bogans it’s FOOTBALL IN THE WORLD 🌍