{"id":2626,"date":"2014-06-09T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T10:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2014-06-09T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T10:39:02","slug":"cameroon-squad-to-fly-to-brazil-after-pay-dispute-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/cameroon-squad-to-fly-to-brazil-after-pay-dispute-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon squad to fly to Brazil after pay dispute resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroonian football squad will depart for the World Cup 12 hours later than scheduled after resolving a strike over bonuses that had resulted in them refusing to board the plane to Brazil on Sunday, the nation\u2019s football federation said.<\/p>\n<p>They have settled a dispute with the government and Fecafoot and will receive 5.8m CFA francs (\u00a37,200) more than the 50m CFA francs originally offered to each player for their participation in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is OK now. We will embark tonight,\u201d the Fecafoot spokesman Laurence Fotso explained, adding that the federation had to borrow the funds to pay the bonuses. \u201cThat money is given [by Fifa] three months after the end of the competition,\u201d said Fotso. So the federation \u201cborrowed money as a private loan to satisfy the players\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Cameroon coach, Volker Finke, told the German broadcaster Sport1: \u201cThere has been an agreement now and there is no need to make a big sensation out of it or make huge stories out of it.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2014\/jun\/08\/world-cup-cameroon-brazil-pay-dispute-resolved\" title=\"Read more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Football News &#8211; Cameroon &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/southcoastherald.co.za\/38425\/biker-stabbed-in-margate\/\" title=\"Football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroonian football squad will depart for the World Cup 12 hours later than scheduled after resolving a strike over bonuses that had resulted in them refusing to board the plane to Brazil on Sunday, the nation\u2019s football federation said. They have settled a dispute with the government and Fecafoot and will receive 5.8m CFA francs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[151,739,740,737,744,730,729,735,734,678,1267,371,731,414,742,738,30,733,114,120,80,188,743,732,741,1270,377,736],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-world-cup","tag-brazil","tag-cameroon-coach","tag-cameroon-coach-volker-finke","tag-cameroon-embark","tag-cameroon-squad","tag-cameroonian","tag-cameroonian-football-squad","tag-cfa-francs","tag-fecafoot","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-football-squad","tag-german","tag-german-broadcaster","tag-laurence-fotso","tag-news","tag-refusing-to-board-the-plane-to-brazil","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-sport1","tag-strike-over-bonuses","tag-volker-finke","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-brazil","tag-world-cup-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}