View Full Version : Big money, big money...
BuffloSoldier
06 Oct 2004, 03:36 PM
Cha-Ching if you make it to Germany in two years' time. (http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,14546,-4536880,00.html)
ZURICH, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The 32 teams who take part in the 2006 World Cup finals will each receive 10.37 million Swiss francs ($8.21 million) in appearance money -- an increase of 38 per cent on the finals in Korea and Japan in 2002.
Bluecat82
06 Oct 2004, 05:20 PM
Cha-Ching if you make it to Germany in two years' time. (http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,14546,-4536880,00.html)
That's some serious change...
No whammys!
That's some serious change...
No whammys!
How much of that actually makes its way to the plyaers?
TAKK
06 Oct 2004, 09:31 PM
Hmmm...
G14 pressing the compensation issue big time, and then Sepp does this.
ACGreen
06 Oct 2004, 11:32 PM
Cha-Ching if you make it to Germany in two years' time. (http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,14546,-4536880,00.html)
That ought to pay for Quatar or the UAE's national team um...er.. "signings."
freisland
06 Oct 2004, 11:48 PM
Cha-Ching if you make it to Germany in two years' time. (http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,14546,-4536880,00.html)
Cha-Ching for Ching, or more Beasley Bling?
I might make it Germany. Do I get a cut?
numerista
06 Oct 2004, 11:54 PM
How much of that actually makes its way to the plyaers?
A good bit of it ... of course, this is just the appearance fee -- there are performance incentives, as well.
If I'm doing the math correctly, this article suggests that taken as a group, our player pool collected about $5.25 million for the 2002 World Cup (including the qualifying bonus but not wages for qualifiers).
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/world/2002/world_cup/countdown/news/2001/10/28/us_worldcup_sa/
HogDaddy
07 Oct 2004, 02:39 PM
A good bit of it ... of course, this is just the appearance fee -- there are performance incentives, as well.
If I'm doing the math correctly, this article suggests that taken as a group, our player pool collected about $5.25 million for the 2002 World Cup (including the qualifying bonus but not wages for qualifiers).
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/world/2002/world_cup/countdown/news/2001/10/28/us_worldcup_sa/
What's not clear in this article is how much US Soccer keeps for expenses and how much is distributed to the player pool. I'm sure a lot of that cash was eaten up in actual travel and housing expenses at the World Cup. In addition, US Soccer should be using some of this to fund the youth teams, future qualifying campaigns, etc. The players should be taken care of, and taken care quite well, but they are not the only expenses USSF has to deal with.
numerista
07 Oct 2004, 07:53 PM
What's not clear in this article is how much US Soccer keeps for expenses and how much is distributed to the player pool.
The way I read this, these dollar figures include only the money that was distributed to the player pool.
onefineesq
07 Oct 2004, 08:05 PM
The way I read this, these dollar figures include only the money that was distributed to the player pool.
that's how it appears to me after a very cursory glance.