Warriors get $3 000 each for drawing with Algeria in opening match

ZIFA yesterday paid $3 000 to each of the 23 Warriors’ players for their 2-2 draw against the Desert Foxes in a Group B opener at the Stade de Franceville, with the rest of the payment going to the technical staff led by coach Callisto Pasuwa.

This brings the earnings, which the players have received for their Gabonese adventure, to at least $25 000 each, while Pasuwa’s technical crew has pocketed at least $38 000 each. ZIFA’s contract with the Warriors does not have a clause that compels them to pay the players for a drawn match.

Speaking to The Herald, from Franceville yesterday, ZiFA vice president, Omega Sibanda, said his executive committee had resolved to “thank the players for their good show against Algeria and to motivate them for the next match against Senegal’’. He refuted claims that the players had boycotted training to demand payment of a draw bonus, insisting the money was being paid at ZIFA’s initiative.