Hundreds of thousands of words will be written allowances they were paid. Players who qualified Nigeria to a fifth World Cup also got a share of the FIFA largesse, several top team officials disclosed.Team officials were also not left out of the largesse with the least getting about $25,000. But it was further learnt that it was not all plain sailing as there were disagreements particularly as regards whether those who qualified the team for Brazil 2014 should also be part of the appearance fee. “There was a big issue among the senior players whether those who were part of the qualifiers should also get something. At the end of the day, skipper Joseph Yobo prevailed that they also have to be included,” a team official informed AfricanFootball.com “So, even some players like John Utaka and Raheem Lawal, who played just a couple of qualifiers, will also get something.”
World Cup: Eagles get N20.8m each
Sunday’s
Wimbledon final between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer took more than
four hours. Hundreds of thousands of words will be written allowances
they were paid.
Players who qualified Nigeria to a fifth World Cup also got a share of the FIFA largesse, several top team officials disclosed.
Team officials were also not left out of the largesse with the least getting about $25,000.
But it was further learnt that it was not all plain sailing as there were disagreements particularly as regards whether those who qualified the team for Brazil 2014 should also be part of the appearance fee.
“There was a big issue among the senior players whether those who were part of the qualifiers should also get something. At the end of the day, skipper Joseph Yobo prevailed that they also have to be included,” a team official informed AfricanFootball.com
“So, even some players like John Utaka and Raheem Lawal, who played just a couple of qualifiers, will also get something.”
Players who qualified Nigeria to a fifth World Cup also got a share of the FIFA largesse, several top team officials disclosed.
BRAZIL,
Curitiba : (From top L) Nigeria’s team midfielder John Obi Mikel,
forward Emmanuel Emenike, defender Kenneth Omeruo, defender Godfrey
Oboabona and defender Efe Ambrose (from bottom L) forward Victor Moses,
goalkeeper and captain Vincent Enyeama, forward Ahmed Musa, midfielder
Ogenyi Onazi, midfielder Ramon Azeez and defender Juwon Oshaniwa pose
during a Group F football match between Iran and Nigeria at the Baixada
Arena in Curitiba at the 2014 FIFA World Cup on June 16, 2014. AFP PHOTO
But it was further learnt that it was not all plain sailing as there were disagreements particularly as regards whether those who qualified the team for Brazil 2014 should also be part of the appearance fee.
“There was a big issue among the senior players whether those who were part of the qualifiers should also get something. At the end of the day, skipper Joseph Yobo prevailed that they also have to be included,” a team official informed AfricanFootball.com
“So, even some players like John Utaka and Raheem Lawal, who played just a couple of qualifiers, will also get something.”
