{"id":23657,"date":"2014-06-09T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=23657"},"modified":"2014-06-09T16:31:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:31:02","slug":"cameroon-arrive-in-brazil-following-their-bonus-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=23657","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon arrive in Brazil following their bonus dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" itemprop=\"description\">Cameroon finally arrived in Brazil for the World Cup on Monday after a dispute over bonus payments that delayed their journey for almost a day.<\/p>\n<p>The squad, including former Chelsea striker Samuel Eto&#8217;o, had refused to fly to South America on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>But they eventually agreed a financial package with the nation&#8217;s football federation after an emergency meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The squad left from Yaounde at 06:00 on Monday, more than 20 hours later than had been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Team coach Volker Finke had said players were complaining that the \u00a361,000 they were due to be paid for figuring in the World Cup was not enough.<\/p>\n<p>After agreeing an end to the row, Cameroon Football Federation president Joseph Owona said: &#8220;Everything has been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have opted for transparency. There is no problem and I think the team needs to be mobilised for all to look in one direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon are in Group A with the hosts, Croatia and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon finally arrived in Brazil for the World Cup on Monday after a dispute over bonus payments that delayed their journey for almost a day. The squad, including former Chelsea striker Samuel Eto&#8217;o, had refused to fly to South America on Sunday morning. But they eventually agreed a financial package with the nation&#8217;s football federation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-23657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}