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Fifa has revealed it was ready to pay Ghana’s players their World Cup bonuses directly and deduct it from the Ghana Football Association’s prize money.<\/p>\n

After Ghana’s players boycotted training in protest at not receiving their money, the country’s government\u00a0flew $3m in cash<\/a>\u00a0in a plane to Brazil.<\/p>\n

Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke described the situation as “sad”.<\/p>\n

“The players have the right to receive their money but it would be much easier to do this by bank transfer,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It is sad that we end up with a story about a strike, where the players won’t play unless they receive their money\u201d\u00a0Jerome ValckeFifa secretary general<\/p>\n

“The fact that the money came in cash is also sad because I was ready to sign a letter, as long as I had a copy of the agreement between the national association and the players, that the money would be paid by Fifa by bank transfer into their personal accounts.<\/p>\n

“Fifa would have made sure to deduct the players’ money from the prize money paid to the national association.”<\/p>\n

While Ghana have now gone home from Brazil, having been eliminated from the tournament at the group stage, another bonus row is in full effect with Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The Super Eagles, who are due to meet France in the last 16 on Monday, refused to train on Thursday over fears they would not receive their bonus payments from the Nigerian Football Federation.<\/p>\n

It prompted Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to speak to senior players of the squad on Friday\u00a0to give them assurances<\/a>\u00a0the money will be paid.<\/p>\n

Even before the tournament there was a similar issue with Cameroon, whose players refused to board their plane to South America because of a row over appearance fees. They arrived for the tournament a day later than scheduled.<\/p>\n

The issue is not a new one – Togo went on strike over bonus money at the 2006 tournament in Germany and Fifa was forced to intervene.<\/p>\n

And Valcke admits that something needs to be done.<\/p>\n

“For future World Cups will ask the national associations to provide us with their agreements with their players to make sure that this kind of episode does not happen again,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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