Albanian miracle, players are distributed salaries with 'punched paper'

2023-05-30 19:53:00, Sport CNA

Albanian miracle, players are distributed salaries with 'punched

The situation created by the Librazhdi Sopot team is as laughable as it is tearful. The problem continues to be the unpaid salaries of the footballers, which have turned into an issue.

The team, after finishing the season and only playing the first round of the "play-off" after being eliminated by Valbona e Tropoja, still has not closed the financial accounts with the players.

Some players who are also employees in the administration of Librazhd Municipality have two unpaid salaries each, while the rest, about 17 players, have not received their last salary, the one for the month of April.

As they have been waiting for some weeks for any news from administrator Andri Çota, last week there was also a meeting between 15 players and administrator Çota in the Librazhd Municipality offices.

In the meeting, the request of the players was simple, related to the unpaid salaries, while the response from the administrator was that the budget is limited and that only 5 players can be paid and who will be the 5 players. players must choose between each other.

Faced with this fact, the players sat down and were forced to decide among themselves who would receive the salaries.

And the most original way they found to choose those who should receive the salaries was by throwing "punched cards".

Thus, the 5 players with the best luck to shoot you cards were Mateus Levendi, Ardian Kaloshi, Denis Mici, Antonio Ranxha and assistant coach Shkëlqim Hajdari.

These players were then called by the administrator to a bar near the Librazhd Municipality where the money was distributed to you.

The news is made known by the sports journalist in the city of Librazhd, Ledion Qoshku, who has published on his social network Facebook, a photo of the conversation that the players and the administrator have developed on Whatsup.

The journalist raises the suspicion regarding the sports budget in Sopot, that it is manipulated because according to the financial reports that the budget of the Librazhd Municipality has and the treasury branch approves every month, they are sufficient to cover the expenses of the players' salaries.

In the municipality's budget, the fund for sports exceeds 120 million (old) lek per year, which according to reports in the treasury branch is 10 million (old) every month.

Meanwhile, even though there is so much money in circulation for a sports team fighting in the Second Category, financial problems are still present and the players are forced to make choices with "punched cards" about who will receive the salaries and who will not.