The Ghana Football Association has chosen to remain tight-lipped regarding the Black Stars’ budget for the World Cup.
This comes on the back of Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif’s comment that the budget will be revealed after the tournament in Qatar.
The Member of Parliament insisted that the team is likely to receive the same appearance fee of $100,000 and a winning bonus of $8,000 from Brazil in 2014.
Eight years ago, Government approved a budget of GH¢24,677,025.00 for Ghana’s participation in the tournament.
Out of this, an amount of GH¢10,500,000 was earmarked for the qualifying stages of the Tournament.
A further amount of GH¢14,177,025 was been budgeted to cover the team’s expenses when they qualify for subsequent stages of the completion.
Quizzed on the budget submitted to the Sports Minister for Qatar 2022, GFA Vice President, Mark Addo told CitiSports:
“Top of my head, I don’t know. It’s a long time ago. If I tell you that I know at the top of my head, I will be lying to you.”
“Whatever budget we submitted a long time ago, the Ministry also has to add certain contingencies and other aspects of it which we don’t control.”
“So I cannot for the life of me begin to guess. But, I believe whatever the Minister, I have heard a couple of soundbites, he is talking about. We plan to go as far as the final so hopefully, he puts all that in.”
Ghana is assured $12 million from FIFA as a preparation fee and group stage earnings.
But the amount will increase when the team progresses at every knockout stage.