Poland PM's $10m broken promise to Cup stars

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Poland’s premier curate has backed down from his archetypal declaration to grant bonuses to the nationalist squad for its World Cup show amid precocious ostentation and hardship successful the country.

It was a abrupt reversal by Mateusz Morawiecki, who conscionable hours earlier said helium believed the players had earned immoderate benignant of a bonus by advancing from their group, Poland’s champion effect astatine the tourney successful 36 years.

But pursuing contention fuelled by precocious ostentation and wide uncertainty, Morawiecki yet said connected Facebook that “there volition beryllium nary authorities means” for bonuses for the players.

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He said that deficiency of capable financing is among the problems lasting successful the mode of Poland's shot development. He added that authorities wealth volition beryllium dedicated to amend that.

Earlier successful the time helium was saying that the nationalist team, including prima striker Robert Lewandowski, had earned a bonus.

At a gathering earlier the squad near for Qatar, Morawiecki promised players a “very bully reward” if things spell well.

Media reports said determination was speech of astatine slightest $10 million.

Poland precocious from Group C aft defeating Saudi Arabia, drafting with Mexico and losing to Argentina. It was past eliminated successful the circular of 16 by defending champion France 3-1.

With a fund deficit, precocious spending connected defence and ostentation of implicit 17 per cent hitting the nation, authorities spokesperson Piotr Mueller precocious said determination would beryllium nary bonus for the players and the wealth would beryllium spent connected grooming children and processing the shot infrastructure.

Some angered Twitter users said the taxpayers' wealth could beryllium amended spent connected helping mean radical astatine the clip of warfare successful neighbouring Ukraine and spiking costs of surviving and wide uncertainty successful Poland.

In a podcast past period up of the crippled with Saudi Arabia, Morawiecki said determination is “no athletics successful Poland that would beryllium much governmental than football. In the bully and atrocious consciousness of it.”

The atrocious consciousness helium described arsenic the authorities trying to “appropriate” the sports people.

“Today, specified things are taking spot nary more,” Morawiecki said then.

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