The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), are loking at cutting down the bonuses paid out to the Super Eagles and other national teams, because of their dwindling finances.
In an interview with Complete Sports, a top official of the NFF, explained that the football body, does not have a big budget to carry out its many programmes. As a result, the federation may slash match bonuses and probably cut down the number of technical crews and backroom staff.
“The NFF is broke because we did not get what we asked for in our budget proposal and with sponsors not forthcoming, we have to cut down on so many things to be able to execute our programmes for the rest of the year,” he said.
“We proposed a budget of about N7 billion but we got an envelop for about N1.7billion which is a far cry from what we needed to successfully see our programmes through. Take for instance, we never knew we would win the Africa Cup of Nations and represent Africa at the Confederations Cup and we did not capture that in our budget.
“The only way out is for government to come to our aid with additional funds or we shall be forced to pay $5,000 as winning bonus to the Super Eagles instead of the current $10,000 they earn for a win. The 50 percent slash will also affect other national teams.”
The source also hinted that the national teams may end up having a maximum of three coaches, while the backrom staff will be between five and six for all national teams.
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