new york: On a big stage like the Football World Cup, Senegal's team is not only struggling on the field to progress beyond the group stage, but outside the field it is facing an even bigger crisis. This team, considered the powerhouse of African football, is currently going through a severe financial crunch. The situation is so bad that even the team's daily work is difficult to do.
According to reports, the team's head coach Pap Thiaw has not received his salary for the last five months. His contract also expired six months ago, but the Senegal Football Association has not yet renewed it. Not only the coaches, even the players have not yet received the bonus of playing in the African Nations Cup. The officials had promised a special bonus if they qualified for the World Cup, but that too remained just a promise. Almost all the perks and benefits of the players have been completely stopped.
There is a lot of resentment among the players over the poor quality of the hotel where the Senegal team has been accommodated for the World Cup matches in America. He alleges that even the basic facilities available to any team playing the World Cup are not available here. Not only this, to reduce expenses, this time the association has not even sent the official chef who lives with the team. Because of this, the entire diet plan of world class players has gone haywire. Apart from this, the number of support staff of the team has also been drastically reduced.
The same association which should mentally support the players to perform better on the field is ruining the team's World Cup hopes through its financial negligence. Senegal team lost 1-3 to France in the first match and defeated Norway 2-3 in the second match. After these two defeats, the team is on the verge of being out of the tournament.
