MADRID, 12 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The players and coaching staff of Extremadura UD have gone on strike for this weekend and the next in protest of their delicate economic situation so that, for the moment, they will not play this Sunday against Deportivo de La Coruña on the day of the First RFEF.
The club has been dragging defaults on the squad for several months and the continuous breaches have caused the footballers and the coaching staff to have decided to call a strike for November 12, 13 and 14, 19, 20 and 21.
The Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) reported this Friday that “from the 12th all members of the squad and coaching staff will exercise their right to second the strike in accordance with the call while there is no solution to the existing problem.”
“The various existing negotiations for the search for solutions to the serious and repeated non-payment that the footballers and coaching staff are suffering, have not yet produced the expected result,” lamented the union, which clarifies that those affected, as they have done since At the beginning, they remain open to negotiate and seek solutions that make it possible to put an end to the extreme problems they are suffering, reiterating their commitment to the future viability of the club. “
“The footballers and coaching staff want to expressly thank the support and support of the fans, the population of Almendralejo and the entire world of football in these difficult times,” added the AFE in a statement.
The Extremaduran team, sixteenth classified in Group 1 of the First RFEF, must visit Riazor this Sunday (12.00 hours) to face Deportivo de La Coruña, and have to receive CD Calahorra on Saturday 20 (19.00) at Francisco de la Hera .