‘Highest ever’ bonus offer for China’s women
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CHINA will pay its women’s football team the “highest ever” bonus as a reward for reaching the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Canada, state media reported yesterday.
The bonus of around 1 million yuan (US$160,000) will be paid to the players who made it to the quarterfinals by beating Cameroon 1-0 on Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing Yu Hongchen, vice president of the Chinese Football Association.
“The World Cup bonus will be the highest ever in women’s national team history,” Yu said. But the bonus is still far less than incentives offered to the men’s team, Xinhua reported.
The move is designed to increase the popularity of the sport among women, where most of the players on the national team earn about 3,000 yuan (US$485) a month, below the national average of 4,100 yuan, Xinhua said.
China has reached the last eight for the sixth time in its history, but it will be the first quarterfinal appearance in eight years after failing to qualify for the 2011 tournament.
China will next face either the United States or Colombia, who were clashing this morning (China time), for a place in the semifinals.
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