Ghana players receive plane full of $3 million
MANAUS,
BRAZIL - Ahead of its Group G decider in Brasilia on Thursday, Ghanaian
deputy sports minister Joseph Yammin told a local radio station the
West African nation has dispatched a plane full of cash to its players
here in Brazil.
"The players insisted (on physical cash)," he told Citi FM, according to a Bloomberg report.
The total? A cool $3 million (more than $9 million Ghanain cedi). That works out to more than $130,000 per player.
This isn't far off from what the Cameroonian federation went through earlier in the tournament when its players refused to board a flight to the tournament until they received payment.
Each team participating in the World Cup receives $8 milllion just for being here. Ghana will meet Portugal in a do-or-die match in the Brazilian capital Thursday. The Black Stars can progress to the second round with a win and a U.S. loss to Germany.
The Ghanaian Football Association is currently under immense scrutiny after an investigative report by the UK's Telegraph uncovered a long list of allegedly corrupt officials within the country's men's national team.
In other News,
Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng have been expelled from Ghana's World Cup squad for alleged indiscipline.
A statement on the Ghana Football Association website said both players had "been suspended indefinitely".
It added Boateng had used "vulgar verbal insults targeted at coach Kwesi Appiah" and said Muntari was guilty of an "unprovoked physical attack on an executive committee member".
The news comes just hours before Ghana take on Portugal on Thursday.
The Black Stars still have an outside chance of qualifying for the knockout phase of the tournament.
Bloomber, torontosun.com and BBC
"The players insisted (on physical cash)," he told Citi FM, according to a Bloomberg report.
The total? A cool $3 million (more than $9 million Ghanain cedi). That works out to more than $130,000 per player.
This isn't far off from what the Cameroonian federation went through earlier in the tournament when its players refused to board a flight to the tournament until they received payment.
Each team participating in the World Cup receives $8 milllion just for being here. Ghana will meet Portugal in a do-or-die match in the Brazilian capital Thursday. The Black Stars can progress to the second round with a win and a U.S. loss to Germany.
The Ghanaian Football Association is currently under immense scrutiny after an investigative report by the UK's Telegraph uncovered a long list of allegedly corrupt officials within the country's men's national team.
In other News,
Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng have been expelled from Ghana's World Cup squad for alleged indiscipline.
A statement on the Ghana Football Association website said both players had "been suspended indefinitely".It added Boateng had used "vulgar verbal insults targeted at coach Kwesi Appiah" and said Muntari was guilty of an "unprovoked physical attack on an executive committee member".
The news comes just hours before Ghana take on Portugal on Thursday.
The Black Stars still have an outside chance of qualifying for the knockout phase of the tournament.
Bloomber, torontosun.com and BBC
