Scorchers Go K4 Million Richer Each

Malawi National Senior Women Football team players will go home K4 million richer following an announcement by FAM that each player will be rewarded with K1 million as a bonus for winning the COSAFA women’s Championship just like it did with the Flames when they qualified for the 2021 AFCON finals.

FAM President Walter Nyamilandu made an announcement on Monday at a welcoming dinner for the regional champions that on top of the K 1 million bonus, FAM will also pay each of the squad members K200,000.00 as appearance fees translating to K1 million for game bonuses in five wins.

The champions also get USD 1,500 (about K1,753,500) external travel allowance totalling to each player cutting home about K4 million.

“These girls deserve better, they deserve more than words and clapping hands as we are aware COSAFA does not give prize money for this competition which ordinarily would have been shared by the team,” said Nyamilandu.

The communique FAM released on Tuesday outlined that FAM takes pride in the women and give them good bonuses by standards despite inadequate resources.

“From the little we have, that’s the best we can do now. But we know government has big news which will be broken at the right time,” said Nyamilandu.

The FAM boss then thanked Goshen Trust and Prophet Sherperd Bushiri personally for the K39 million package that enabled FAM to buy air tickets for the Scorchers to travel to South Africa for the tournament.

Meanwhile, the Minister of youth and Sport Uchizi Mkandawire confirmed that the State President His Excellency Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera will host the team for a luncheon on Wednesday afternoon.