Ben Carter
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694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
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It's nearly over.
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For pretty much everyone, apart from the English and the Spanish, I would say, but one man who might be feeling even more depressed than me is a German, USA coach Jürgen Klinsmann.
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If figures in respected American newspapers are to be believed, Klinsmann would have received over $10 million had his team gone on to win the tournament.
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No.
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But to be fair, World Football's governing body, FIFA, pay out some serious prize money to the football federations of those teams that make it to the World Cup.
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Even those countries that turn up, don't win a game and go home.
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Yes.
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They receive $9.5 million.
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The overall winners will receive $36.5 million.
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It is, but the incentive of large bonuses hasn't been particularly successful.
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It was rumoured that the Spanish players could expect to get a million dollars a man if they won the World Cup, which raised some eyebrows amongst Spanish MPs who asked legitimately why their bonus was double the size of the Germans, considering the strength of the relative economies.
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Well, we put that question to an expert.
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Tom Coupe is a senior economist at the Kiev School of Economics in Ukraine.
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He's been looking at World Cup bonuses since the 2006 competition.
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Well, that's true.
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But perhaps, Ruth, football federations are looking at it in the wrong way.
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Here's Dan Ariely, a behavioural economist at Duke University in the United States.
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So perhaps economic sanctions for players rather than bonuses is the way to go.
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That's true.
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