Lome, Togo (PANA) - Players of Togo's national football team (Hawks) are off for Paris where they will play a friendly match against Guinea in partial preparations for the African Cup of Nations (CAN) finals in Egypt, later this month.
The players were scheduled to have left on Wednesday but they refused to board their plane and demanded allowances of 2 million FCFA instead of 500,000 FCFA offered them by the Togolese Football Federation (FTF).
Apart from objecting to the allowances, the players who accuse the FTF of neglecting them, sought to remind national soccer administrators on the importance of good preparations for the 20 January to 10 February 2006 continental soccer bonanza.
Meanwhile, Togolese football fans have threatened to stage protest demonstrations if the FTF does not fulfil the players' demands.
The FTF chairman, Major Rock Balakiyem Gnassingbé told a news conference here Thursday evening at the end of negotiations with the players before they left for Paris that their demands had been partially met.
He explained that an agreement had been reached to solve the outstanding problems.