{"id":17771,"date":"2024-02-01T09:07:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2024-02-01T09:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:07:21","slug":"super-eagles-to-receive-30000-each-for-advancing-in-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/01\/super-eagles-to-receive-30000-each-for-advancing-in-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles to Receive $30,000 Each for Advancing in AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Eagles will each pocket a whopping $30,000 after advancing past the group stage of the ongoing AFCON in Cote d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time African champions finished as runners-up in Group A with seven points from three matches, behind group winners Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>The previous arrangement was for each player to be paid a $5,000 match bonus all the way to the championship game.<\/p>\n<p>However, a top official has now confirmed that this arrangement has since been jettisoned, with a lump sum payment for each round of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>There is, therefore, an additional fixed bonus for the team after they advanced past Cameroon 2-0 in the AFCON Round of 16, and the same will apply for the quarterfinal against Angola on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>These bonuses were included in the special budget for the AFCON approved by the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>However, the players are yet to receive these bonuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Eagles will each pocket a whopping $30,000 after advancing past the group stage of the ongoing AFCON in Cote d\u2019Ivoire. The three-time African champions finished as runners-up in Group A with seven points from three matches, behind group winners Equatorial Guinea. The previous arrangement was for each player to be paid a $5,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17827,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions\/17827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}