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England’s Capello is paid eight times more than Dunga or Maradona

Uruguay’s Oscar Washington Tabarez “survives” with a frugal 300.000 USD

The 32 coaches of the national teams participating in the South Africa 2010 World Cup are paid handsomely with England’s Fabio Capello top of the list with an annual salary of 10 million US dollars while Nigeria’s Shaibu Amodu, figures at the other extreme with 180.000 US dollars, according to the Argentina’s sports publication Olé.

Capello is followed by Marcelo Lippi from Italy, 3 million USD and Joachim Low, Germany, 2.3 million USD.

Uruguay’s Washington Tabarez also ranks low in the list with 300.000 US dollars; Paraguay’s Gerardo Martino 360.000 USD; Argentina’s Diego Maradona, 1.2 million USD and Brazil’s Dunga, 1.25 million USD.

South Africa that is hosting the competition has invested 1.8 million USD tax free in Brazilian coach Carlos Parreira. This caused an uproar in the country since Parreira makes in a month what the South African president is paid for twelve months. But pride and opportunity for South Africa are above all considerations.

Chile which qualified early for the World Cup and has one of South America’s best teams is investing 850.000 USD annually in Marcelo Bielsa, a former coach of the Argentine national team.

Not necessarily surprising even the austere North Koreans have opened their hand and according to Olé are paying Kim Jong Hun 250.000 USD.

The Olé list follows:

- Fabio Capello (England): 9.900.000

- Marcelo Lippi (Italy): 3.000.000

- Joachim Löw (Germany): 2.300.000

- Javier Aguirre (Mexico): 1.800.000

- Carlos Parreira (South Africa): 1.800.000

- Berter van Marwijk (Holland): 2.700.000

- Ottmar Hitzfeld (Switzerland): 2.600.000

- Vicente del Bosque (Spain): 2.200.000

- Carlos Queiroz (Portugal): 2.000.000

- Pim Verbeek (Australia): 1.820.000

- Dunga (Brazil): 1.250.000

- Diego Maradona (Argentina): 1.200.000

- Takeshi Okada (Japan): 1.200.000

- Ricki Herbert (New Zealand): 1.200.000

- Otto Rehhagel (Greece): 1.150.000

- Paul Le Guen (Cameroon): 960.000

- Marcelo Bielsa (Chile): 850.000

- Vahdi Halilhodzic (Ivory Coast): 740.000

- R. Domenech (France): 720.000

- Hun Jung Moo (South Korea): 600.000

- Morten Olsen (Denmark): 570.000

- Milovan Rajevac (Ghana): 540.000

- Bob Bradley (USA): 400.000

- Radomir Antic (Serbia): 447.000

- Matjaz Kek (Slovenia): 360.000

- Gerardo Martino (Paraguay): 360.000

- Rabah Saadane (Algeria): 360.000

- Reinaldo Rueda (Honduras): 350.000

- Vladimir Weiss (Slovakia): 312.000

- Oscar Washington Tabárez (Uruguay): 300.000

- Kim Jong Hun (North Korea): 250.000

- Shaibu Amodu (Nigeria): 180.000