The victorious Golden Eaglets will have to wait a little more before they get bonuses for their outstanding performance in the last World Cup as the NFF says it is broke.
Victorious Golden Eaglets
In a very embarrassing disclosure, the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has come out to say that the football body is cash-strapped and won’t be able to pay the newly crowned U-17 World champions, the Golden Eaglets some of their bonuses.
This was made public by the General Secretary of the NFF, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi who lamented that the lean purse of the football federation caused the unfortunate situation, adding that, this prevented the NFF from paying the Eaglets and their coaches winning bonuses of the semi final and the final matches of the FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015 weeks after the end of the championship.
“The bonuses for the semi final and final matches of the World Cup have not been paid to the Eaglets. There is no money to pay these bonuses and we can’t pay them for now.
“The problem is that we can’t pay the money we don’t have. There was a rumour that we gave the players N20,000 each as winning bonus. Where can we get the money? It’s just a lie.
"As soon as we get enough money we will pay all the players. They had done this country proud by winning the U-17 World Cup and we must appreciate them by paying any money due to them, ”
It would be recalled that the Emmanuel Amuneke-coached Golden Eaglets made Nigeria proud after it won a record fifth FIFA U – 17 World Cup for Nigeria at the Chile 2015 tournament early this month.