Over 40% of football players made to wait for wages: survey
London
MORE THAN 40 per cent of the world's professional footballers have experienced delayed payment of wages, according to a wide-ranging survey published by global players' union FIFPro on Tuesday. In the survey, carried out by the University of Manchester, 41 per cent of the 13,876 players who responded had been forced to wait for their salaries over the past two seasons.
"It's a wake-up call for clubs and governing bodies," FIFPro general-secretary Theo van Seggelen told reporters during a recent briefing in London. "We cannot accept it any longer." The FIFPro Global Employment Report 2016…
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