{"id":2596,"date":"2014-06-08T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T05:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2014-06-08T12:45:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T05:45:57","slug":"world-cup-bonus-for-spain-players-fifa-world-cup-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/world-cup-bonus-for-spain-players-fifa-world-cup-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup bonus for Spain players – FIFA World Cup 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain players will each get a Football World Cup bonus of 720,000 euros ($980,000) if they win the tournament in Brazil, sparking anger among lawmakers. Captain Iker Casillas and vice-captain Xavi Hernandez signed the deal with Spain’s football federation June 3 on behalf of the 23 players. It was an increase from the 600,000 euros each player received when Spain won the 2010 tournament.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers Pablo Martin Pere and Susana Ros of the opposition Socialist party criticized the premium as ”disproportionate” and ”an insult to citizens” given the recent economic crisis.<\/p>\n

Lawmaker Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida tweeted that Spain would pay ”more than twice” the bonus Germany would if it wins the tournament.<\/p>\n

”Are we twice as rich as Germany?” his tweet said.<\/p>\n

Germany’s team will receive 300,000 euros if they win, having kept the same agreement they struck when they participated in Euro 2012.<\/p>\n

Spain’s economy began to crumble in 2008 with the collapse of its bloated real-estate sector, and unemployment soared to 26.1 percent at the close of 2013…<\/p>\n

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Spain players will each get a Football World Cup bonus of 720,000 euros ($980,000) if they win the tournament in Brazil, sparking anger among lawmakers. Captain Iker Casillas and vice-captain Xavi Hernandez signed the deal with Spain’s football federation June 3 on behalf of the 23 players. It was an increase from the 600,000 euros […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,84],"tags":[151,681,678,679,677,1267,371,682,30,114,120,463,680,80,188,1270,364,683],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-world-cup","tag-brazil","tag-economic-crisis","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2014","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-iker-casillas","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-spain","tag-spains-football-federation","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2014","tag-xavi-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}