Super Eagles players agree on 2018 World Cup bonuses with NFF

Super Eagles players have agreed on a deal on their 2018 FIFA World Cup bonus payment structure with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

The deal is an agreement between the players and the NFF as regards bonuses, allowances and share of income from FIFA for the 2018 World Cup.

The Super Eagles represented by senior players like Captain John Mikel Obi, Ahmed Musa, Kenneth Omeruo and William Troost-Ekong attended a meeting with top officials of the NFF.

Present at the meeting were NFF president Amaju Pinnick, his vice presidents, Seyi Akinwunmi and Shehu Dikko, General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi and Technical and Development Committee Chairman Yusuf Ahmed Fresh.

A meeting first held on Sunday, November 12 to prepare the agreement before another meeting on Tuesday, November 14 hours before the Super Eagles of Nigeria defeatedArgentina 4-2 in a friendly gameto sign the deal. 

The Super Eagles of Nigeria stayed away from a training session in Brazil during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in protest over unpaid bonuses and its situations like this that the NFF wants to avoid in Russia 2018.

Pinnick and Sanusi signed for the NFF while Rohr and Yusuf signed for the technical crew and Mikel Obi and Musa signed for the players.

“Every detail has been agreed on match bonus for each match and each round up to the Final as well as share of income from FIFA money for each round until the stage we are able to get to at the finals,” President/Chairman of NFF’s Strategic Committee Shehu Dikko is quoted to say on the NFF website.

Agreement on how much players will be paid for the friendly matches, including how and when the monies would be paid were also agreed in the deal.

What NFF will do with their share of the funds from FIFA were also discussed in the deal.

“We are very happy and excited with this development. This is the first time since I started playing for the senior team that I would see everything regarding preparation and bonuses and allowances put down in black and white and a binding agreement executed,” Mikel Obi said.

“It is reassuring that we now have a Federation leadership so committed to making everything work that they arranged this meeting and allowed the players to contribute and then set out to sign the agreement.”

The agreement is not subject to review or negotiations, except there is a review by FIFA of what it has approved and published as prize money for the participating countries.

Source: Pulse TV