Bonus boosted Bradley World Cup income: report

Former US coach Bob Bradley received a bonus of $400,000 after the Americans won their group at the 2010 World Cup, according to US Soccer Federation tax documents seen by the Washington Post. The newspaper reported on Tuesday that Bradley was paid $941,792 for a 12-month span that included the World Cup in South Africa and that captain Carlos Bocanegra was the top-paid player at $347,583. Reasons for the bonuses for Bradley were not specified but they likely involved the US run to the last 16 before losing to Ghana. Bradley was paid $345,000 in bonuses after the US reached the 2009 Confederations Cup final. Bradley, fired last year and replaced by German icon Jurgen Klinsmann, is now the coach of the Egyptian national team. Klinsmann has a basic salary of $2.5 million a year through to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, but incentives for qualifying and beyond were not in the documents, which covered April 2010 through March of last year. Michael Bradley, son of the former coach, was the second best paid player at $345,782 followed by forward Landon Donovan at $342,989 and goalkeeper Tim Howard at $339,388. Donovan's national team income was only a fraction of the $2.3 million he made playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy last year when the team captured the Major League Soccer championship. The documents showed $4.48 million in federation funds were spent on a failed bid to host either the 2018 or 2022 World Cups and more than $2.8 million was spent on expenses in southern Africa, mainly on the World Cup, including housing, meals, airplane flights and ground transportation.