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2010: Soccer bosses want R500k
01/07/2007 12:23 - (SA)
Johannesburg - Twenty-one members of the SA Football Association's national executive committee (NEC) are demanding seats on the 2010 World Cup gravy train, the Sunday Times reported.
They want R500 000 each for their contribution in helping South Africa to be awarded the 2010 World Cup, although it is not known how the members arrived at such a figure, the Johannesburg weekly reported.
This would cost cash-strapped Safa R10.5-million.
After Danny Jordaan, Irvin Khoza and Molefi Oliphant were each awarded R7.4m bonuses three years ago, a resolution was undertaken that the rest of the national executive would be rewarded accordingly.
This was after SA was awarded the rights to host the 2010 World Cup in May 2004. Although it was not decided how much the members would be rewarded, the issue has been raging in Safa's corridors ever since.
"We did not get a cent after the World Cup was awarded to South Africa. Some of the members launched the first World Cup bid in Burkina Faso in 1998 and have been involved throughout. It's not fair," said a member of the NEC, who spoke to the Sunday Times on condition of anonymity.
- SAPA
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