By David Kabiyesi
Incoming reports revealed that Super Falcons players have expressed delght with FIFA’s decision to pay players’ directly rather than hands the money over to football associations.
Decent source revealed that most of the players who pleaded anonymity were said to be in cloud nine afterFIFA announced that the 2023 World Cup prize money will be paid directly to the players without interference from a third party.
” The players are related with the decision and coach Waldrum is most delightful with the news,” iwitnesslive.com revealed.
Fifa will pay out $152m (£122m) in total, more than three times more than the $50m (£40.2m) paid in 2019: $110m (£88.4m) is being put towards the performance-based fund.
While $11.5m (£9.3m) is being spent on the club benefits programme, and a further $30.7m (£24.5m) is being paid as preparation money.
Fatma Samoura, FIFA Secretary-General, said the policy change is due to unpaid allowance issues involving federations and their players.
“This will encourage players to focus on horning their competitive skills, the game will get more competitive because everyone wants to represent their country, so we will get the best of the best hands,” he said.
Falcon’s Head Coach Randy Waldrum, had revealed that some players are owed “per diem and bonuses” from two years ago
