Vice chairman of the Black Stars Management Committee, Akwasi Agyemang has revealed that winning bonuses for the senior national team of Ghana at the 2022 FIFA World Cup has been scrapped.
Agyemang in an interview with Accra-based radio station, Happy FM said that the leadership of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and the Ministry of Youth and Sports have reached an agreement with the Black Stars playing body to pay a qualifying bonus in every competition instead of the usual winning bonus.
The Black Stars players at the 2014 FIFA World Cup were paid $10,000 as winning bonus before it was slashed to $5000 prior to the start of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.
He also said that the current Black Stars management committee has managed to convince the players to accept qualifying bonuses instead of the winning bonuses.
“We have had a series of meetings with the players and agreed on qualifying bonuses. The players agreed because we took a leaf from our predecessors,” Akwasi Agyemang told Happy FM
“We made the players understand that the money does not come from us the management committee but the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Finance”.
“The players are now aware of what they are entitled to but funding is another issue, which is why President Nana Akufo-Addo organized the fundraiser to get some money from Corporate Ghana for the team”, he added.
Ghana will be facing Portugal, Uruguay and South Korea in Group H of the 2022 World Cup
