SOCCER-WORLDCUP-GER-NGA/Reuters America WireNigeria’s players have refused to leave the team hotel after their exit from the women’s World Cup on Saturday, demanding that the country’s soccer federation clears all of their outstanding bonus payments, ESPN reported https://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-womens-world-cup/story/3882567/nigeria-stage-sit-in-at-wwc-over-unpaid-bonuses. The players staged a sit-in protest shortly after Nigeria were beaten 3-0 by double champions Germany who continued their unbeaten run to reach the quarter-finals. And they are also owing us five days’ daily allowance here in France.”Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick told ESPN all bonus payments were cleared. “The only thing outstanding is the participation fee from (soccer governing body) FIFA, which isn’t expected to come until after the tournament,” he said. In 2016, over a dozen members of the team had demonstrated outside the National Assembly in the capital Abuja to demand unpaid bonuses for winning the women’s Africa Cup of Nations.

Source: National Post June 23, 2019 10:52 UTC