The Jamaica Soccer Federation (JFF) has taken the unprecedented step of suspending the choice of senior Reggae Girlz gamers who achieved a historic Spherical of 16 end on the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. This resolution comes because the gamers and the JFF grapple with unresolved contractual points.
Introduced late on Friday, the suspension of participant choice follows the rejection of call-ups by all senior gamers for the upcoming CONCACAF Girls’s Gold Cup qualifiers. These matches are set to happen away to Panama subsequent Wednesday and at residence to Guatemala the next Sunday.
In a written communication addressed to the gamers, the JFF expressed its discomfort with the gamers’ response and the absence of participant representatives at a scheduled assembly on Friday. The JFF emphasised its willingness to deal with all considerations raised by group members in accordance with their contracts, stating, “If there’s a grievance or concern, this should be positioned squarely on the desk to be addressed and documented to the JFF.”
Studies point out that in a three-point bulletin introduced to the JFF, the gamers requested the total fee of all excellent sums earlier than the October window. The gamers had been initially anticipated to obtain 20 per cent of the FIFA World Cup prize cash, which is believed to complete US$1.87 million.
JFF receives solely US$1.2 million, says GenSec Chung
Nonetheless, the JFF’s Normal Secretary, Dennis Chung, clarified that the JFF had acquired solely US$1.2 million from FIFA, because the world governing physique had withdrawn a few of the owed funds. Chung defined, “The contract [with the players] states that the quantity, the proportion needs to be paid based mostly on what’s paid to the JFF.”
Chung additional detailed that the contract differentiates between spherical one and spherical two cash, with spherical one referring to qualifying matches and spherical two earmarked for gamers who participated within the World Cup.
The standoff between the gamers and the JFF revolves round these conflicting interpretations of the contract, with the JFF sustaining that they can’t pay cash they don’t possess.
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It stays to be seen how this standoff will probably be resolved, as each events search to search out widespread floor and deal with the contractual disputes which have introduced Reggae Girlz participant choice to a standstill.
