‘The Club Is Dead’ – Footballers Unpaid And Angry As Chinese Teams Fold

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The team bus of Liaoning Hongyun will be auctioned to help pay its former players, but it will take much more than that to raise the $850,000 that Jacob Mulenga says he is owed. The Zambian striker is not the only player trying to claw back unpaid wages from Chinese football clubs that have … Continue reading ‘The Club Is Dead’ – Footballers Unpaid And Angry As Chinese Teams Fold

“How are you going to explain $850,000 being owed to someone in his last years playing football?” asked the 37-year-old, addressing football’s world governing body, FIFA.Fans watch the game during the Chinese Super League football match between Guangzhou FC and Guangzhou City in Guangzhou in China’s southern Guandong province on April 20, 2021“All you can say is: the club is dead, so we can’t do anything,” added Mulenga, who says he was not paid throughout his second season with Liaoning.

It is also a warning to players considering moving to China, which attracted foreign stars such as 60-million-euro Oscar in 2017 but is now tightening its belt. “Given a significant number of clubs which have been shutting down with barely any notice, we are concerned not only about the sustainability of professional football in China but the alarming lack of mechanisms in place to protect the livelihood of players,” FIFPro told AFP.

“They faked our signatures and just applied for the registration,” Basic, who did not wish to divulge his story before leaving China, told AFP from his home in Switzerland.Basic, who says part of his wages were paid in cash, wrote to the CFA in January but had no response.

 

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