Ivory Coast players still waiting on payments
No WC bonuses for Ivorians yet
Posted: 2010-07-24 20:01
The Ivory Coast players have still not been given their bonuses – nearly two weeks after the end of the 2010 World Cup – as promised by their national football federation, FIF.
According to the newspaper L’intelligent d’Abidjan, no Ivorian player from the World Cup squad has received a bonus from the FA.
FA President Jacques Anoma has been busy in search of a new coach for the national team after Sven-Goran Eriksson’s contract expired at the end of the World Cup.
Anoma is to hold a press conference on Tuesday to give feedback of the Elephants’ campaign at the World Cup and to discuss the future of the national team as qualifiers for the 2012 African Cup of Nations are beginning to loom.
He is also expected to talk about the issue of unpaid bonuses to players, according to the source. Ivorian players are impatient considering that other teams have been given their due bonuses; Ghana, for example.
A player from the Ivorian team, whose name was withheld , told L’intelligent d’Abidjan that the FA asked them to supply their account numbers – to which the bonuses would be sent – long before the tournament began, but no funds had been transferred into them, as yet.
An FA official reached by Goal.com says the bonuses would definitely be paid next week, and that FA had been very busy with other pressing issues.
The Elephants’ squad in South Africa included Premier League players Kolo Toure, Emmanuel Eboue, Yaya Toure, Salomon Kalou and Didier Drogba.
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