Germany okays 1% of world cup bonus for girls’ football projects

 

BERLIN – The Germany women’s national team are planning to donate 1% of their World Cup bonus to integrative girls’ football projects in the county.

The German Football Federation (DFB) said on Friday that the team is joining the Common Goal initiative, which encourages football players and coaches to pledge at least 1% of their salaries to a collective fund that supports football charities around the world.

The DFB is to donate the 1% of the World Cup bonus to the Futbalo Girls and the Girl Power projects.

“With our personal commitment as players and our cooperation with integrative girls’ football projects outside of organized sport such as Futbalo Girls and Girl Power in Germany, we want to help ensure that women from all social and cultural backgrounds have the same opportunities to play and coach football,” Germany midfielder Svenja Huth said.

Team-mate Lena Oberdorf added: “With our commitment, we want to send a clear signal that we understand diversity not only as part of our own identity as a team, but also as an opportunity for the advancement of our sport and our society as a whole.”

Football governing body FIFA will pay out $110 million in bonuses at this year’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, three times more than at the 2019 World Cup.

Each player is to be guaranteed $30,000. However, all payments will be handled by the 32 participating national associations.

On Monday, the German team will face Morocco in Melbourne, their first task in the preliminary round. The other opponents in Group H are Colombia, who await the German team in Sydney on July 30, and finally South Korea.