The president of Senegal, Macky Sall, rewarded this Tuesday to the components of the national soccer team, which won the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time (CAN), with some €75,000 ($85,000) per person and two plots in Dakar and its surroundings.
Senegal, which had welcomed the return of the Teranga Lions on Monday with a real human tide in the streets of the capital, paid this Tuesday a more official and less crowded tribute to the champions who were received at the presidential palace.
The Head of State, before several thousand people, stated that Captain Kalidou Koulibaly’s team had lived up to the expectations of a football-mad nation and put an end to the frustration of entire generations.
“We dream of the cup, you built this dream and they made it happen. Finally, here is the Africa Cup of Nations”, he stated.
Senegalese President decided to decorate the players and all the members of the delegation, about 60 people, with the National Order of the Lion, and raise to rank those who had already been distinguished in the past.
The players and the members of the delegation will receive a bonus of 50 million CFA francs each (€75,000, $85,000), a hefty sum by Senegalese standards, a plot of 200 square meters in DakarY another 500 meters squares in the new city of Diamniado.
Sadio Manewhich he received with coach Aliou Cissé special praise from the presidentspread happiness to an entire country on Sunday by scoring the decisive goal against Egypt in the CAN final.
For the World Cup in Qatar, Senegal must first qualify in a tie at the end of March precisely against Egypt. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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