{"id":3864,"date":"2023-10-16T02:35:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T01:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/16\/read_news-phpnid49144\/"},"modified":"2023-10-16T02:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T01:35:18","slug":"read_news-phpnid49144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/16\/read_news-phpnid49144\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique v Nigeria at risk of cancellation as Mambas players refuse to train for two days over pay row:: All Nigeria Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/76559FMF.png\" height=\"185\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\" Mozambique v Nigeria at risk of cancellation as Mambas players refuse to train for two days over pay row\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mozambique v Nigeria international friendly scheduled to hold on Monday is at risk of\u00a0cancellation\u00a0due to a pay dispute between the Mambas players and\u00a0Mozambican Football Federation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0\u00a0RM Desporto, via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lance.co.mz\/artigo\/mambas-exigem-600-usd-e-ameacam-nao-defrontar-nigeria\" rel=\"noopener\">Lance<\/a>, the Mozambican national team players are demanding an additional payment of $600 each and have threatened not to take to the\u00a0Albufeira Municipal Stadium pitch on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Mozambican Football Federation paid the players $600 each for the friendly against Angola on Friday, October 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The existing agreement with the\u00a0Mozambican Football Federation does not provide for the payment of bonuses for friendly matches but the payment of pocket money is provided for.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mambas manager\u00a0Chiquinho Conde\u00a0has not been able to prepare his squad for the friendly against the Super Eagles as the players boycotted training on Saturday and Sunday, demanding payment of $600 each.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Mozambican Football Federation issued a press release on Sunday, stating that: &#8221;it was taken by surprise with a demand from the players, for the FMF to make an additional payment of bonuses\/pocket money from the aforementioned training camp, this being a precondition for the team to carry out the following training sessions, as well as the preparatory game against Nigeria scheduled for October 16th, at the Albufeira Municipal Stadium&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FMF confirmed that the money being demanded by the players could jeopardize the holding of the friendly with Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FMF chief Feizal Sidat added that the Federation may decide to cancel the remaining period of the training camp in Portugal and ask the players to return to their respective clubs if no agreement is reached.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.flos1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/392871787_874757020684898_6258734341725552496_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=5f2048&amp;_nc_eui2=AeG1nNyMU5EANVgKgGXMjMqgkGXWvMvpgReQZda8y-mBFxki_zjYfsN1X8SrKcY_v2Q&amp;_nc_ohc=aktjYa3G5NMAX-bVzHC&amp;_nc_zt=23&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.flos1-2.fna&amp;oh=00_AfB0fX41VeYSmvpEvT2elZElpRXHp1WHhkUBiiDjYoBOFQ&amp;oe=6531F2F3\" style=\"height:466px; width:290px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: fmf.co.mz<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright ANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAll rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from allnigeriasoccer.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=49144\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozambique v Nigeria international friendly scheduled to hold on Monday is at risk of\u00a0cancellation\u00a0due to a pay dispute between the Mambas players and\u00a0Mozambican Football Federation.\u00a0 \u00a0 According to\u00a0\u00a0RM Desporto, via Lance, the Mozambican national team players are demanding an additional payment of $600 each and have threatened not to take to the\u00a0Albufeira Municipal Stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}