Footballers Union of Zimbabwe Secretary General Thomas Sweswe has said the association is greatly-concerned about the salaries being given to players from the country\u2019s top flight league.<\/p>\n
The economic quagmire which has hit Zimbabwe has not spared the country\u2019s football clubs, with some of them said to be paying players the same salaries they were giving them in 2019 when the RTGS-United States dollar interbank rate was still 1:15.<\/p>\n
To makes matters worse, the Covid-19 crisis has further crippled teams financially, with some sponsors opting to terminate contracts and shift their focus to the fight against the novel pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe understand that there are contracts but look at what is happening; the salaries are being eroded by inflation every month. Surely a club cannot continue to pay the same salary they were giving players in January, it doesn\u2019t make sense at all,\u201d Sweswe said according the Daily News On Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe carried out a survey in the PSL, Division One and Women\u2019s League, the salaries are inadequate. It\u2019s a sorry state and something needs to be done immediately,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Footballers Union of Zimbabwe Secretary General Thomas Sweswe has said the association is greatly-concerned about the salaries being given to players from the country\u2019s top flight league. The economic quagmire which has hit Zimbabwe has not spared the country\u2019s football clubs, with some of them said to be paying players the same salaries they were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[790,810],"class_list":{"0":"post-26269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-sport","9":"tag-football-in-zimbabwe","10":"tag-sports-in-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\n