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FIFA Increased Prize Value

There is a large amount publicity regarding the forthcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

This raise the query: Is an African country capable of hosting the tournament? But Africa, through South Africa has misrepresented the mind of many by reputation out as the place with the best infrastructure, stadiums and capabilities to run the event as effortlessly as promising.

One be supposed to not forget the sequence of football events that teams, referees, players, coaches and football associations went through during the qualify games.

For the past weeks, talks approximately the world, particularly in Namibia, have been the draw. Now that the 32 participate teams that completed it throughout to Africa´s first Fifa World Cup and their huge amount of fans following the draw know faithfully where they will be in concert and who they will be in concert against when the football tournament start on 11 June 2010.

It is going to be the big 6 qualifiers to be precise, Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and South Africa alongside the rest of the world.

When the world cup starts and an African country is playing, keep in mind for all time say, it is Africa in opposition to their opponent."

But it will be good to start a countdown to this tournament by putting across that there has been an inspiration for any of the Africa teams to do fine and for the first occasion win this significant event. There was good news in recent times from FIFA´s Executive Committee which make known increased and accepted total prize money for the World Cup from US$261 million to US$420 million for the 2010 World Cup winning team.

With this 60% increase, FIFA Secretary General, Jerome Valcke said that the winner of next year´s contest will take home US$30 million and the runners – up will get US$24 million.

The four participate teams in the semi-final will get US$20 million, and quarter finalists teams will get US$18 million.

All participate teams that arrive at the final 16 will get US$9 million, while those eliminate in the collection stages of the final opposition will collect US$8 million.

All the same, each of the 32 qualify teams will obtain US$1 million for research costs and US$40 million will be provide by FIFA via the member associations to the clubs whose players will take part in the 2010 FIFA World Cup as a part to their participation in the competition.

"Every club who has a player at the World Cup will receive US$1600 per day, per player", Valcke stated.