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For winning the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) championship this year, Rivers United Football Club's players will each get a monetary prize of $20,000 from Governor Nyesom Wike.
Following their accomplishment of finishing first in the league with a record 77 points from 38 games, all of the players and club executives were given a reception on Thursday at the Rivers State Government House in Port Harcourt.
The Governor of Rivers State, who officially accepted the trophy from the team, said that the players will be honored for their achievement with the coveted Governor's Medal Service Award.
A two-week, all-expenses paid trip to Madrid, Spain, to train for the next Confederation of African Football, he added, will be financed.
“Each of you will be given the Governor’s Medal Service Award first. All the players and management team, you are now going to have Governors Medal Service Award (GMSA) at the end of your name,” the governor said.
“The Commissioner of Sports should make sure that all of you will go to Madrid for two weeks and train. You know Madrid is where you can get the best team. You go there for two weeks, prepare with other clubs to enable you to prepare for the forthcoming CAF competition.
“All playing all these matches, you have one kind of pain and this, something should be able to push on. Each of you will go home with 20,000 dollars.”
Governor Wike also revealed plans to give each player $40,000 (N16 million) should they go past the group stages of the CAF Champions League.
By the virtue of finishing first in the NPFL, Rivers United automatically qualified as Nigeria’s representative for next season’s Champions League, with runners-up Plateau United, picking the season ticket.
Third-placed Remo Stars will represent Nigeria in the CAF Confederations Cup, with the winner of the 2022 AITEO Cup, picking up the final ticket.
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