The Ministry of Youth and Sports is proposing a new bonus package for the senior national team; the Black Stars for the upcoming 2015 AFCON tournament.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”DmGazzjcucJvyujftXqjXV8n0axVY5oO”]The proposal would replace the tiered bonus package which paid incremental wining bonuses for each game won as the tournament progressed.<\/p>\n
According to the new proposal, each player will receive a flat match appearance fee of $5,000 per game regardless of the outcome or which stage of the tournament they get to.<\/p>\n
This would amount to $30,000 for six games played if they were to make it to the final.<\/p>\n
The team would only get an extra $60,000 for actually winning the tournament.<\/p>\n
This would replaced the system where players took home winning bonuses of $10,000 at the group stage, $15,000 at the semi-finals, and more when they get to the final.<\/p>\n
The formula was proposed after extensive discussions between the Minister of Sports, Mahama Ayariga and the Ghana Football Association officials.<\/p>\n
The issue of bonus payment has become controversial for the Ghana national team after a near player revolt over same, marred the team\u2019s 2014 World Cup tournament in Brazil.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Government was embarrassed after flying $3 million<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to the team during the tournament, after the move received widespread condemnation<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>both in Ghana and abroad.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ministry of Youth and Sports is proposing a new bonus package for the senior national team; the Black Stars for the upcoming 2015 AFCON tournament. [contextly_sidebar id=”DmGazzjcucJvyujftXqjXV8n0axVY5oO”]The proposal would replace the tiered bonus package which paid incremental wining bonuses for each game won as the tournament progressed. According to the new proposal, each player […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6921,"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":[29,43,3,38],"class_list":["post-74681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74681","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=74681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}