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The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has announced that women will be paid the same amount of money per match as men when playing for the country's senior national soccer teams.
Members of the men's team had previously been paid about $3,000 per match, while members of the women's team had been paid about $600 per match. 
The FAI said that the men's team has agreed to a reduction in fees for international games, with the money making up part of the new payments for the women's team. 
Women's team captain Katie McCabe said that the decision was "a huge step forward" for equality in Irish sports, and thanked the men's team for agreeing to it. 
As recently as 2017 the women's team was in the news because they did not get paid at all for their matches. The players said that they also had to share uniforms with Ireland's underaged teams and get changed for games in airport bathrooms. 
At the time the team asked for a gym membership, more uniforms and about $350 per match, with extra payments for winning or drawing games. The players threatened to not play a game against Slovakia, but were able to come to an agreement with the FAI and the game went ahead. 
Ireland is not the first country to give its men's and women's soccer teams equal pay. It joins England, Brazil, Norway, Australia and New Zealand, which have also made the change over the last four years.

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愛爾蘭足球協會宣布，女性效力於該國資深國家足球隊時，未來參加每場比賽的薪水將與男性同酬。
以往愛爾蘭男子隊的成員每場比賽約獲得3,000美金，然而女子隊的成員每場比賽卻只有約600美金。而現在，男子隊已同意降低國際比賽的費用，這筆錢則將成為支付女子隊薪資的一部分。女子隊的隊長Katie表示，這項決定是愛爾蘭體育界落實平等的一大進步，也感謝男子隊同意這樣做。

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senior高階的
underage未成年的
membership會員身分

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Article: Engoo Daily News
(https://engoo.com.tw/app/lessons/ireland-announces-equal-pay-for-mens-womens-soccer-teams/WVQUPhFREeyL2bvOxLp0-g)
(https://engoo.com.tw/)

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