Player bonus great idea, but is it sustainable?

When the Hon. Minister of Sports, Youth and Culture Hon. Gladys Kokorwe announced that from now henceforth football players in the National Squad will be paid P 3 000 per game, the news was welcomed with jubilation by most Batswana and certainly by all sportsmen.

Listening to a discussion on this subject in the phone-in programme Masa-a-sele one could easily detect a groundswell of goodwill towards the idea.

The amount proposed as payment to each player may be described as peanuts by some people when compared with what other footballers are paid in other parts of the world. In the heat of the moment some of us at times cannot see the wood for the trees. Maybe a little example here could help some people to see the proposed payment in proper perspective. Assuming that the total number of players to be paid per game is 15, this works out at P 45 000 per game and P 180 000 for four games in a month.

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