\u2022FIFA Secretary-General, Fatma Samoura.<\/i><\/p>\n
World football body FIFA has announced its plan to pay prize money directly into the players\u2019 accounts of the winners of the ongoing women\u2019s World Cup in Australia\/New Zealand.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n FIFA Secretary-General, Fatma Samoura, confirmed this in a viral video on social media saying the policy change is due to unpaid allowance issues involving Nigeria\u2019s Super Falcons.<\/span><\/p>\n The Falcons head coach, Randy Waldrum, had earlier revealed\u00a0that some players were owed \u201cper diem and bonuses\u201d from two years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n The development caused a stir and almost affected the preparation of the Super Falcon players with most of them insisting on missing the training to protest their unpaid bonuses.<\/span><\/p>\n However, in the video, Samoura acknowledged that \u201cthings have been tough\u201d for\u00a0the Falcons.<\/span><\/p>\n She added that FIFA for the first time would monitor that match bonuses got to the players directly.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI know that things have been tough. We have to face the realities of Nigeria. It pains me a lot. It is because of you (the Super Falcons) that, for the first time, the prize money has been ring-fenced in the history of FIFA to ensure that it goes to you,\u201d the FIFA secretary-general said.<\/span><\/p>\n FIFA had announced that every player participating in the World Cup group stage would earn $30,000.<\/span><\/p>\n The match bonuses will increase to $60,000 in the second round of the competition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World football body FIFA has announced its plan to pay prize money directly into the players\u2019 accounts of the winners of the ongoing women\u2019s World Cup in Australia\/New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[826,7381],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fifa","tag-world-cup-prize-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14695,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions\/14695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}