The European Championship begins this Friday under a prism of maximum equality and without a clear favorite for the title. On June 11, the continental competition for national teams is kicked off, a great prize for players, spiced up by the possibility of having a succulent economic loot that, contrary to what could be foreseen by the coronavirus pandemic, it will raise its emoluments for the winners.
UEFA increases the prizes for the winner of the competition to 34 million euros. This amount is far from the top of the 27 kilos that Portugal took for its title of European champion in 2016. By participating in the tournament, each team qualified for the Eurocup will win the not inconsiderable amount of 10 million euros, already guaranteed for 24 combined participants and their federations.
In addition to the awards that UEFA awards to the clubs as an organizer, each country has premium agreements with players and coaching staff for different objectives to be met. The Royal Spanish Football Federation negotiates in this case with those chosen by Luis Enrique, and the amounts could be close to 400,000 or 500,000 euros for each member in case of winning the European Championship.
In previous tournaments, the Spanish team also had objective bonuses and in the case of the 2008 and 2012 conquests, the prizes were substantially lower. In 2008, at the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland, each footballer in the squad then led by Luis Aragonés got a bonus of 214,000 euros, while in the 2012 edition, held in Poland and Ukraine, it was 300,000 euros. which meant two consecutive wins for the national team.
