Adding: \u201cWe are ready to go as far as missing our first game against Canada on July 21 because this has to stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn Wednesday night, we held a meeting where we agreed that we were going to find out if what we were asking for is legitimate, and that if it\u2019s legitimate, we will press for our demands. It was what was agreed. The next meeting will be after we get the information we need and then the protest will start.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was learnt that shortly before the Nigerian contingent departed Abuja for Australia July 2, Sanusi, during a meeting with the players, told them that they would not be paid match bonuses by the federation, since FIFA had already announced that every player would get $30,000 in the group stage of the tournament in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was also gathered that the players will no longer be given 30 percent of the $1,560,000 FIFA grant to all member associations for the group stage of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our source said the players were stunned \u201cafter Sanusi landed the sucker punch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe General Secretary came for the meeting clutching so many papers; he told us that we won\u2019t be paid match bonuses at the World Cup because FIFA had already given each player $30,000 for the group stage. He also said we won\u2019t get 30 per cent from the $1,560,000 FIFA would give the NFF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were shocked, team morale went down immediately because we couldn\u2019t believe what the man was saying,\u201d our source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the oldest players in the team asked him if FIFA would deduct the money ($30,000) they would give us from the $1.5m they gave the federation but he (Sanusi) said no. So, she said if its like that, then it shouldn\u2019t affect our match bonuses. After several minutes of argument, Sanusi asked us if we would have preferred the $9,000 match bonus or the $30,000 from FIFA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Super Falcons are planning to stage a strike and boycott their opening game of the 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup after their match bonuses for the competition were cancelled by the federation. This comes after the General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation Dr Mohammed Sanusi told them their match bonuses for the competition had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79805,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79797\/revisions\/79805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}