Members of the Super Eagles squad to Russia have each been paid N3.2m ($9,000) being the appearance fees for the World Cup warm-up matches against DR Congo, England, and Czech Republic. It was gathered this was paid the team to further fire them up for the World Cup, which kicks off on Thursday in Moscow.
It was also learnt that appearance fee for each match was $3,000-a-man. Speaking, a top board member of the Nigeria Football Federation said, “The appearance fees for all the pre-World Cup matches have been paid as the federation try to ensure that the players are in right frame of mind.”The board member went further to state that the players were happy with the treatment they were receiving and that would only serve to bring out the best in them at the tournament which starts in a few days.