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Noviembre 12, 2004
La Seleccion in Washington
The Bolivian National Team arrived in Washington, DC to play a friendly match against Guatemala. From DC the squad will travel to Colombia for their Wednesday match in Barranquilla.
The team almost chose not to board the flight because of the prize money that would be paid out. They claimed that the dirigentes had promised $1000 would be paid to each player. However, moments before boarding the flight in Santa Cruz, the amount was lowered to $500. General consensus was the players would forfeit the game. Yet, when a clause stating that a forfeiture would cost the Federation a fine of $100,000 (double of what would be paid out), the dirigentes upped the prize money back to the original figure.
Tickets for the match are $30. However, I am currently in Maine and will not be back in the city for this match.
Posted by eduardo at Noviembre 12, 2004 11:35 AM