Togo not showing up?

[Bumble]

Will Togo turn up for Switzerland match?


FRANKFURT, June 18 (Reuters) - Togo did not leave their team base Wangen on Sunday on time for a planned departure to their next World Cup group match.

'We are still in the hotel,' coach Otto Pfister told Reuters on the phone when the team was meant to get on the plane to Dortmund, where they are due to play Switzerland on Monday.
Togo's World Cup debut has been overshadowed by a row over players' pay, in which Pfister walked out on a team that boycotted training sessions only to return days later.
Asked whether Togo were boycotting the match, a source close to the team just said the side showed no signs of getting ready for their departure.
'The departure (from the match camp in Wangen) was planned for now but the players are showing no signs of getting ready or leaving,' the source said.
While players said on Saturday a solution had not yet been finalised, officials have insisted the pay dispute is settled but have not given details. Togo, who lost their debut against South Korea 2-1, are due to play Switzerland in Dortmund on Monday.
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Wtf? Has this ever happened before?

 

[sunny]

they'll turn up

 

[Angry_eel]

wtf

 

[mickdo]

Looks like FIFA stepped in :lol:

FIFA try to persuade reluctant Togo to play
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=371588&cc=3436

FRANKFURT, June 18 (Reuters) - FIFA intervened on Sunday to persuade Togo's players not to boycott their World Cup game with Switzerland as unrest simmers in the Togolese camp.

The squad was on its way to Dortmund where Togo will play their second Group G match against Switzerland on Monday. The players had initially stayed in their base in southern Germany while they discussed a long-running pay dispute.

'As far as we understand the team did not want to play,' a FIFA spokesman said.

'The FIFA delegate there told them it would be extremely serious. He told them to be reasonable and they were,' the spokesman said, adding the team were now on the road.

No team that has qualified for a World Cup finals has withdrawn from a match in the 76-year history of the event. Any nation doing so face a heavy fine and could be banned from subsequent competitions.

'We are on the bus now,' coach Otto Pfister told Reuters on the telephone. 'I think they have found a solution but I don't know what it is and I don't want to know,' he added. The team is due to catch a flight from Friedrichshafen airport.

The Togolese, beaten 2-1 by South Korea in their opening match on their World Cup debut, did not leave their base in Wangen on Sunday in time to catch their scheduled morning flight to Dortmund. Instead players held crisis meetings with officials over the pay row.

The dispute had prompted Pfister, a German, to walk out just before the tournament, saying it made it impossible for him to do his job. He returned just in time for the first match.

Players from the tiny West African country have demanded 155,000 euros ($196,300) each to play and 30,000 euros for each win, half that for each draw. But officials from the country with an average per capita income of well below $1,000 have said those demands are too high.

 

[An41]

pathetic attitude, they are just wasting another african's nation chance from playing in the world cup

 

[sunny]

lol, you tell 'em an

 

[An41]

Niga would turn up

 

[Bumble]

Cape Verde Islands would turn up too, but they didn't make it so let's not play hypotheticals.

 

[NPK]

Sierra Leone would not show up...

 

[An41]

Sierra Leone would not show up...

:lol::lol: thats the greatest call