The Executive committee, of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has agreed to grant a financial subsidy of $500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand dollars) to each of the five African teams going to the Russia 2018 World Cup.
Executive Committee member Kalusha Bwalya and presidents of the Football Associations of the five qualified countries as members, met in Moscow, Russia, on the sidelines of the draw for the FIFA World Cup to agree on the payment.
According to the Committee, the financial package will be used mainly to strengthen and improve the technical supervision of each team.
In addition, CAF will provide each African representative with “fieldwiz” equipment, a technological device and physical performance measuring tool for outdoor team sports players.
Nigeria, Senegal, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia are the five African flagbearers at the World Cup.
It will be recalled that at its last meeting held on 16 November 2017 in Rabat, Morocco, the CAF Executive Committee decided to set up an ad hoc committee chaired by the CAF 1st Vice President, Kwesi Nyantakyi, to map out a kind of support to be provided to African representatives to the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018.
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