Angola's players promised $5,000-a-goal
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-05-22 15:17
Angola's Banco Internacional de Credito (BIC) has promised to give $5,000 to
any of their country's players who scores at the FIFA World Cup?
The bank's president, Fernando Teles, also said he would offer a reward of
$5,000 to the best Angola player in each of their Group D matches against
Portugal, Mexico and Iran.
The incentives offered by BIC also include $50,000 to be shared among the
players and technical team for every win in Germany, plus a further $50,000 if
Angola make it past the group stage.
The Angola squad, known as the Palancas Negras, left on Friday for Germany,
where they will play in their first-ever FIFA World Cup next month.
Tens of thousands of fans, clad in Angola shirts or special FIFA World Cup
t-shirts, brought the streets to a standstill on Thursday evening as the
departing players were paraded through the capital.
The 23-man squad then enjoyed a gala dinner for more than 2,000 people at the
new Coqueiros stadium.
Angola face former colonial masters Portugal in their opening FIFA World Cup
group match on 11 June in Cologne.
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