Not that they needed any extra motivation in the Club World Cup, but the Seattle Sounders will guarantee themselves at least an additional $1 million in prize money if they beat Al Ahly in the quarterfinals on Saturday, according to the Sporting News. Just for qualifying, the Sounders were already guaranteed $1 million prize.
The Sounders’ prize would balloon to $2.5 million if they were to finish as high as third and they would bring in $5 million if they were to win the whole thing.
While the players won’t see all of that money, it would still almost certainly dwarf anything they’d get through other competitions.