Stars to collect $50,000 appearance fee on Monday

(By Veronica Commey, GNA Special correspondent, Cologne, Germany)

Cologne, June 18, GNA - Each player of the Black Stars is to rake in a whooping 50,000 dollars as appearance fee at the Mundial, currently underway in Germany.

The amount is as a result of an agreement reached between the 23 players and the Ghana Football Association (GFA) before their departure. Information gathered by the GNA Sports indicates that, the GFA had initially proposed 20 thousand dollars appearance fee for each player, with the winning bonus also pegged at 20,000 dollars each at the preliminaries.

The players, the GNA Sports in Wurzburg can confirm rather negotiated for a 50,000 dollar appearance fee and 10 thousand dollars each, as winning bonus for each group game.

The Stars clocked their first wining bonus on Saturday after beating the Czech Republic in Cologne to ensure they are 60 thousand dollars richer each.

Arrangements are far advanced to have the players paid in Accra in their quest to outwit the whooping 21 percent tax the players would have parted with if paid that much in Germany.

The Ghanaians FA officials will soon announce a new package for the next stages of the competition.

Meanwhile, information pieced together by the GNA Sports indicated that each of the standby players are to receive 10 thousand dollars each in what has been termed as a golden handshake for their efforts.

The five, Baffour Gyan, Yusif Chibsah, Aziz Ansah, Philemon Macarty and Baba Armando Adamu are to be paid by the end of July.

The GNA Sports gathered that their payment had been tied to the arrival of the one million dollar appearance fee paid to all teams by FIFA, organizers of the competition.

The Stars humbled the Czech Republic 2-0 in Cologne on Saturday to light up their chances of advancing to the next stage of the competition after losing by the same margin to Italy in their opener on June 12. The Ghanaians who made history as the first debutant to have won a game so far, are billed next against the United States of America (USA) in a game that requires a win to keep their hopes alive.