A day after Goal.com reported of FIFA asking Sporting Clube De Goa to pay up Rs.9, 60, 000 to their former Nigerian recruit, Eze Isiocha for wrongful termination of the three year contract and non payment of salary, the Flaming Oranje have stuck to their grounds that the player is guilty of cheating and misleading the world governing body.
Sporting Clube De Goa signed Eze for a period of three years and after not being satisfied with his performances, they relieved him of his duties and thereby, paid the sum for the time he donned the club colours. However, according to Sporting Clube De Goa, Eze filed a complaint to FIFA that he “was not paid a single penny” for his services by the Goan club, which they have out rightly denied.
“It is implausible that a professional, that too a foreign one, will commence playing in India without advance money, let alone without salary. And here, we have a player who has made the Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) of FIFA believe that he was not paid a penny for the period spent at our Club,” said Sporting vice-president, Victor Fernandes to Goal.com. The Flaming Oranje claim to have the money receipts wherein the player signed while accepting his wages, which Eze has disagreed with.
“Eze has defamed our club by denying his signatures on the money receipts and claiming that he was not paid for the period of time he spent with the club. He was paid money, and he signed the receipts in my presence. And a scrutiny by a handwriting expert will easily prove that the receipts were signed by him. In fact, at the time of leaving the club, Eze had an advance payment to the tune of Rs. 1,57,129 after taking into account his salary,” explained Fernandes.
Courtesy: goal
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