Bodø/Glimt’s Champions League adventure, a sporting and financial adventure, is over for this season, but the money continues to flow into the club’s coffers. This time it is the football World Cup that sends fists of dollars to Aspmyra.
The newspaper Nordland reports that the FIFA Club Benefits Programme ensures that income from the World Cup in the USA/Canada/Mexico reaches all the way to Aspmyra, where clubs that have players participating receive their “compensation”. A total of 355 million dollars will be distributed to the clubs that have players in the World Cup.
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Bodø/Glimt make solid profits from their three Norwegian national team players
According to the reports, the structure is such that the clubs are compensated with 11,000 dollars per player – per day. Payment starts already ten days before the championship starts. For Bodø/Glimt with Patrick Berg, Fredrik Andre Bjørkan and Jens Petter Hauge out on the road, this means 33,000 dollars per day.
The elite league club is thus guaranteed six million kroner from FIFA for its players’ participation in the World Cup. This is before Norway qualifies for advancement.
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