Quote from: SatoPrincess on Today at 10:59:04 PM

I am a big sports fan and a supporter of women in sports but I also understand those who feel that the government is not spending money on the right things. $100k is not a small amount even for professional footballers. Mind you, the $100k is not taxable and goes straight into their pockets. The players will also get paid their salaries for the tournament. If the players were given a condition to spend the $100k in Nigeria I would have preferred that the money be put back into the economy of the country.

We all can go on and on about this amount, first i will say for a winning bonus that’s not much but I get the point where other are coming from like the government have actually neglected other people like the military men or even police force who simply receive just $1500 as gratuity. Yes this is very low and they need to be commended but that doesn’t mean we should be putting it out on this players and the amount they will get. Rather we should be advocating for the government to simply recognize other people serving the country too most especially our security operatives.

We all can say this is sport but there is dangers in it too some players get life threatening injuries too in this games and we don’t know when it will happen, so going out means they were actually risking their life too for the country. Moreover this amount is more like their arrears owed over the past few years of playing, the last team to have been well awarded like this was the 2007 U17 world champions and since then the federation has been not making it easy for this set of players but yet they still come to gather each tournament to play and win it, so for me this amount might be big for our economy but not that big considering how much we have even been wasting on renovating some facilities in this countries which are useless