Algeria players donate money to Gaza
Algeria will donate their $9m Brazil World Cup second round prize mazuma to the people of Gaza, according to striker Islam Slimani, International Business Times UK reports.
The North African side won an incipient legion of fans after their heroic Group H performances earned them a Second Round tie against Germany.
Slimani, a striker for Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon, promulgated that the entire squad would donate their hefty prize mazuma to the occupied territory because “they need it more than us”, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
The Gaza Strip is a narrow territory occupied by Israel currently under a land, sea and air blockade. Humanitarian conditions have perpetuated to deteriorate rapidly because of the blockade, according to the United Nations and avail agencies.
The Algeria team returned to the capital of Algiers for an open-top parade through the city centre after reaching the Second Round of the global tournament for the first time in their history.
The benevolent act contrasts with that of incidents involving the Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria squads.
The Ghana squad injuctively authorized their appearance fees afore their must-win clash against Portugal, leading the Ghanaian regime to charter a flight to fly out the £1.8m ($3m) worth of fees to Brazil.
“The players insisted that they will optate physical mazuma. Regime had to mobilise the mazuma and a chartered flight to Brazil. The mazuma is in excess of $3m,” verbally expressed Ghana’s Deputy Sports Minister Joseph Yamin.
The Cameroonian World Cup squad relucted to board their flight to Brazil after a dispute over bonus payments.
The team eventually flew to the tournament a day tardy after striking a deal with the nation’s football ascendancy following an emergency meeting.
