If you don't feel like reading the whole thing, here are the highlights:
- If you are a player on the final 23-man World Cup roster, you make a minimum of $76,000.
- FIFA gives out team bonuses in larger and larger amounts depending on how far the team advances in the tournament. The country's soccer federation can then distribute the money as it sees fit among the players. According to Wahl, in 2002, when the US advanced to the quarterfinals, "each player received $203,000. I have been told the figure would be more than double that amount if the team repeated the 2002 run in 2014."
- And here are the salaries of the MLS players who are competing for a spot on the final roster. As you can see, there is a pretty wide disparity among the players' salaries and just an extra $76,000 would make a big difference for some of the lower-paid players:
- Clint Dempsey: $6,695,189
- Michael Bradley: $6,500,000
- Landon Donovan: $4,583,333
- Omar González: $1,250,000
- Chris Wondolowski: $650,000
- Maurice Edu: $650,000
- Graham Zusi: $398,250
- Brad Davis: $392,062
- Kyle Beckerman: $378,750
- Clarence Goodson: $342,000
- Michael Parkhurst: $300,000
- Brad Evans: $293,666
- Nick Rimando: $235,833
- Matt Besler: $200,000
- DeAndre Yedlin: $92,000
