FIFA CHANGES ITS OPINION AT THE WORLD FULL
Scandal at FIFA! Infantino refuses to pay the players for the Women's World Cup
Published:1/08/2023 - 00:43h
Updated:1/08/2023 - 00:43h
Before the start of the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, FIFA promised that, for the first time, the tournament would award individual prizes to players. However, Gianni Infantino has changed his speech
Finally, the Feminine World-wide Glass of the FIFA will not award individual prizes to the footballers participants. At least like this it has announced it Gianni Infantino, president of the FIFA, in the week in which it will close the first phase of the tournament. In principle, the mandamás had confirmed that, for the first time, the footballers would receive prizes from 27.000 alone euros for participating in the first phase.
However, the mandator left clear that the money will not credit of individual form to the footballers. "Any payment that do will do it through the associations and afterwards the associations, of course, will do the notable payments to his players. We are in contact with all the associations", ensured Infantino in this regard.
The prizes promised by the FIFA before the tournament
Previous to the beginning of the World-wide of Australia and New Zealand, the FIFA ensured that each player champion of the tournament would receive 250.000 euros, whereas the selection that raise the trophy on 20 August in Sídney would remain with 4 'kilos' net. By his part, the combined runner-up ingresará 2.8 'kilos' and, in the case of the selections that participated in the phase of groups already have ensured €1.5m.
Now, the FIFA changes his speech and leaves clear that any payment that receive the players will go out of the montos credited to the federations. In this way if, for example, the selection of Philippines (one of the deleted in first phase), wishes to cover the €27.000 that, initially, would receive each one of his 23 footballers summoned, will have to discount 621.000 euros of the 1.5 millions that correspond him to the federation for having participated in the tournament.
Infantino, criticised for abandoning the tournament
Before confirming how will deliver , finally, the prizes of the tournament, Gianni Infantino was criticised for having left of Autralia and New Zealand in full dispute of the World-wide. The alone mandator was present during the first week of the tournament, unlike Qatar 2022, where kept in floor qatarí from the first until the last party of the competition contested between November and December.
