The Bucs will be paid by the world’s football governing body as their Ghanaian keeper Fatau Dauda is playing at the Mundial
Orlando Pirates have confirmed that they are expecting payment from Fifa for their goalkeeper Fatau Dauda, who is with Ghana at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
According to Bucs’ officials, the world’s football governing body pays clubs a rate of $2800 a day (about R28 000) for players making their countries’ final 23-man squads for the Brazilian showpiece.
Pirates are therefore expected to get about R500 000 for Dauda because he is competing for Ghana in Brazil.
“I don’t know how much they will be paying us because FIFA doesn’t deposit the money directly into the club’s bank account. In 2010, FIFA gave the money to SAFA and the association then transferred it to the club’s accounts,” Pirates administrative manager, Floyd Mbele, told the Siya Crew.
“All I know is that in 2010 the money that was paid to clubs was based on the number of players that a certain club had in the World Cup squads,” added Mbele. Meanwhile, Mamelodi Sundowns are expected to pocket R1 million from FIFA for Ghana’s Rashid Sumaila and Ejike Uzoenyi of Nigeria.
