Fifa to pay Togos bonuses

Tue, June 20th 2006

Fifa have agreed to resolve the Togo players’ financial dispute by paying the squad’s bonuses directly.

The players’ bonuses (£110,000 plus extra for winning and drawing matches) will now be payed to the individual players with the money being taken out of the money FIFA would have payed the Togo FA.

Prize money for defeat in the first round is 7 million Swiss francs (just over £3 million). The winner will get 24.5 million CHF (around £10.7 million) of the 332 million Swiss francs total prize money.

Listed in: Competitions, World Cup

Comments

Good for them. The players deserve a sizable paycheck but also come from a very poor country. Who knows if the country was being cheap or the players greedy. Hopefully FIFA felt that the players were being fair and that they deserved to be paid. This obviously hurts their federation a bit, but no team should have to threaten a boycott of a World Cup match because they can’t get paid.

Soccer Dad at 3:20 PM on Tuesday, June 20, 2006

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