The German national soccer team would be richly rewarded for winning the World Cup title in Qatar. One can argue about that.
Pro: “That’s appropriate” (Holger Dahl)
Let’s just look at professional football for what it actually is: a business. In this business, employees who play football also make money at the World Cup, and a lot at that.
The success of the national players brings capital and, if successful, significantly more than if they were eliminated early. At the end of the day, we’re talking about profit-sharing when it comes to the negotiated premiums. Incidentally, it has not increased, but at 400,000 euros for the title, it is just as high as it was last time at the European Championships.
It’s unromantic, but it’s just the normal course of things in professional football.
Cons: “That’s absurd” (Martin Roschitz)
If each player collects 400,000 euros for the fifth star, a total of 10.4 million euros would be due. Absurd! For comparison: For the European Championship title, each DFB player would only have collected 60,000 euros.
Quite apart from the question of whether that is fair: why do men get so much money from the DFB? Now alone 50,000 euros for the group win. Without exception, every national player is a multi-millionaire. Nobody plays better in a World Cup game to be able to put a luxury car in the garage.
Instead of holding out his hand again, Captain Manuel Neuer and Co. could have made the money available to those who really need it, such as the survivors of the dead migrant workers in Qatar.