#Change: NFF Scraps Dollar Bonuses for Eagles
The Nigeria
Football Federation (NFF) is set to adopt a new regime where players of theSuper
Eagles and other national teams will no longer be paid dollar bonuses.
This is part of
the recommendations made by the NFF Technical Committee in Abuja as the
football house restructures its operations in line with the present day
economic realities.
Vanguard
Sports writes that henceforth, players will only be paid what is known
as performance based bonus which will be a function of how they fared in any
given international assignment.
Therefore Super
Eagles players will no longer be paid the usual $10,000 dollars per match
during the qualifiers for the 2018 Russia World Cup, rather the federation will
tell them how much they stand to gain if they qualify for the tournament if and
only if they pick the ticket.
They are also to be paid in Naira for any match
played at home.
“We all agree that the revenue base of the federation is dwindling by the day and if you consider the new policy of the government on foreign exchange, you must agree that there is no way we can sustain the era of paying each Super Eagles player $10,000 dollars per match and when we fail to qualify for the tournament, the federation loses everything. “Now we will be paying them based on their collective performance as a team like it is done in most other countries of the world,” an NFF source said.
Furthermore, the
U17 team, the Golden Eaglets will be paid camp allowances while their parents –
who will be made to sign an undertaking to attest to their real ages – will
collect their bonuses in Naira on their behalf.
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