Following Abdul Samad Rabiu’s pledge of $1.5 million and performance bonuses to the Super Eagles ahead of AFCON, reactions kept intensifying. One angry response rejected the idea that money should be used as motivation at all.
The comment, “This nonsense is not motivating… what matters is patriotism, pride for the team… not donating money that should help empower poverty-stricken majority in Kano,” shifts the debate away from football incentives to social responsibility. It suggests that rewarding already well-paid athletes is misplaced when severe poverty exists in Rabiu’s home state. Rather than seeing the pledge as sports sponsorship, the commenter frames it as a moral issue, arguing that national pride and public welfare should take precedence over cash bonuses for elite players.
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