The ultimate goal for roller derby is for the sport to go pro. Or so I'm told. There are mixed feelings about that all over this great worldwide derby community of ours. But I'm not gonna get into all the arguments. I just wanted to make a quick point here:
Major League Soccer player salaries, 2007-2011
I used to follow the LA Galaxy pretty avidly-- had season tickets and everything. At the time I was still attending matches (around 2007), the lowest-paid player on the Galaxy made roughly $17,000 a year. That's not even counting reserve players, who were making as little as $11,000 a year. Word was that many of the reserve players shared living quarters, they were so poor. And this was a professional club, which also managed to pay David Beckham a $5,000,000 annual salary. Can you imagine what professional derby salaries will be like in the early years? Start looking for shared housing now, guys.
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