Brasil 2014 -Tension In Eagles Camp As Players Demand N12m Each Or… -

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As the Super Eagles step out on Monday for their first World
Cup match against Iran, there are fears that the deficit in
agreement for the appearance fee of the players may dash
whatever hope Nigerians have for the national team to do
well in Brazil 2014.

The Super Eagles tabled their grievances to the Senate
President, David Mark when he came visiting them on
Friday. The players said that they will not accept anything
less than the $75,000 about N12.2m appearance fee paid
to each of their Ghanaian counterparts by the Ghana
Football Association.

Also, the Eagles requested that the NFF relocate them from
their Victoria Concept hotel in Campinas, which they
described as isolated and it makes them look like prisoners
unlike other World Cup teams whose Federations lodged
them in better and more ideal places.

Sports Vanguard gathered that Senate President David
Mark who listened with rapt attention as the players reeled
out their grievances thereafter berated the NFF for not
promptly settling the issue of appearance fees as was the
case with other Federations like the Ghana Football
Association.

The Senate President thereafter appealed to the coaches
and the players to put aside anything that would constitute
a distraction to them in the World Cup and focused on
winning the World Cup reassuring them of the determination
of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to give them the
necessary support in the tournament to make Nigeria
proud.

NFF President Aminu Maigari we gathered had to sign an
agreement with the team promising that they will not get
anything less than the Black Stars of Ghana.
Sports Minister, Dr Tammy Danagogo who was in
attendance at the no-holds-barred meeting urged the team
to do everything possible to make an impressive outing in
the tournament.

Present at the meeting were
Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State;
Dr. Danagogo; Senator Bala Mohammed,
minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); Chief Edem
Duke,
minister of culture and tourism; Mr. Boni Haruna,
minister of youths and social development; Senator
Gumba,
Chairman Senate Committee on Sports; Hon. Godfrey
Gaiya,
Chairman House Committee on Sports, Alhaji Maigari,
and other executive members of the NFF.... what are all
these people doing there?

Nigeria will earn over $9 million about (N1.4b) or
qualification and participation in the first round of the Brazil
World Cup. If the Eagles fly into the second round more
money would also be paid.

*politics in fussball!....They should lodge them in good
hotels ooooh.