{"id":647015,"date":"2019-06-28T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 27 June 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n2019-06-27\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/307"},"modified":"2019-06-28T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:10:08","slug":"black-stars-players-received-appearance-fee-before-afcon-dr-kofi-amoah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/28\/black-stars-players-received-appearance-fee-before-afcon-dr-kofi-amoah\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars players received &#8216;appearance fee&#8217; before AFCON &#8211; Dr Kofi Amoah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 27 June 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GHANAsoccernet.com <\/p>\n<p>2019-06-27<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/30792401.295.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Kofi Amoah   Normalisation Cttee \" title=\"Dr Kofi Amoah   Normalisation Cttee \" width=\"295\" height=\"193\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dr Kofi Amoah, President of Normalization Committee<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The president of the Normalisation Committee of the Ghana Football Association Dr Kofi Amoah has confirmed Black Stars players received their heft &#8220;appearance and motivation fee&#8221; before the team&#8217;s departure for a camping base in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation by the president of the interim body, confirms GHANAsoccernet.com&#8217;s publication about the latest move.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s leading football website, GHANAsoccernet.com reported that players pocked an initial $23,000 as part-payment for their appearance fee before the team left for the gulf.<\/p>\n<p>The players receive their share of the booty at the Tang Palace Hotel in Accra after their farewell meeting with Ghanaian leader Nana Akufo Addo.<\/p>\n<p>But as expected, officials have denied strenuously, claiming the reports are wide off the mark.<\/p>\n<p>But Normalisation Committee boss Dr Kofi Amoah has silenced the doubting thomases after confirming players received their &#8220;appearance and motivation fee&#8221; in the Ghanaian capital, Accra.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the president of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo decided that he was tired of the elusiveness of the Africa Cup of Nations crown,&#8221; he told Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said how come we haven&#8217;t won the title in the last 37 years. He called a meeting at the Jubilee House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the little little things, the little nuisances that crops up and make us to lose focus and all of that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The appearance fee and the motivation money and the all of that were paid before they even left Ghana for the camp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are focused to move away from all the small, small petty,petty things that can disturb the focus and inspiration of the players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So now the focus on the technical abilities and physical endurance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A further $2.5m has been budgeted for 55 media personnel who have been sponsored to the tournament &#8211; a concept craftily designed to buy their silence to mask the plundering of meagre state resources to fund the campaign that can only generate the country $4.5 million if the Black Stars win the trophy. This means a debt of $10 million will be wracked even if Ghana wins the title.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the AFCON trophy will take home $4.5 million as prize money.<\/p>\n<p>Runners-up will pocket $2.5 million, semifinalists, $2 million and $800,000 for the quarter-finalists.<\/p>\n<p>$475,000 will be for each team that will be eliminated at the group stage, meaning that all the countries competing at the tournament will receive at least $735,000 each from prep money and group stage earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Last edition\u2019s winner and defending champions, Cameroon, got $4 million for winning in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Runners up, Egypt received $2 million, while Burkina Faso and Ghana, the two semifinalists, went home with $1.5 million each.<\/p>\n<p><b>THE PREVIOUS FIGURES<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s estimated budgets for three of the last four have been as follows:<\/p>\n<p>2012 &#8211; $5.5m<\/p>\n<p>2015 &#8211; $5.8m<\/p>\n<p>2017 &#8211; $3.4m<\/p>\n<p>2019 &#8211; $15m<\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/1561724374_372_96124592.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">Courtesy of <b>GHANAsoccernet.com<\/b> &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s leading football news website. 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