Keshi’s 28th highest paid coach in Brazil 2014

Super Eagles head coach,Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, is the
28th highest paid manager at this year’s World Cup.
Keshi, who earns just above Ghana’s Kwesi Appiah among
the five African coaches going to the world cup is on a
salary of £233,750 per annum.

Keshi is
among the
five lowest-
paid
managers
who are all
nationals of
their own
countries, and
in order of
smallest pay
are Miguel
Herrera of
Mexico
(£125,000 per
year), James
Kwesi Appiah
of Ghana
(£150,000),

Niko Kovac of Croatia (£162,000) and Safet Susic of Bosnia
(£210,000)
Africa’s highest earning coach is Sabri Lamouchi of the
Ivory Coast, a Frenchman with a Tunisian heritage,
presently earning a salary that is most extreme compared to
the average wage in his country of employment.

His annual pay of £618,125 is a staggering 795 times as
much as the average annual pay of £778 per year in the
Ivory Coast – or £14.96 per week. The Coaches of Algeria
(Vahid Halilodzic) and Cameroun (Volker Finke) are next
behind Lamouchi in Africa World Cup coaches paylist on a
salary of £600,000 and £235,000 respectively.

Globally Russia’s Fabio Capello tops the coaches pay list on
a salary of almost £7m a year while the lowest earning
coach is Miguel Herrera of Mexico on a salary of £125,000
per year.
The combined annual salaries of the 32 bosses add up to
£39.1m, making the average pay £1.2m.