The meeting between Woman of Seville and the UDG Tenerife, which opened at 9:00 pm this Friday on the first day of F League, It was not played as a result of a strike called by unions representing soccer players to demand improvements in women’s professional soccer, the Sevilla club reported in a statement.
“Sevilla FC would like to inform you that the match that the women’s first team was supposed to play tonight against UDG Tenerife will not take place due to strike call by the soccer players’ union. All at the expense of the referees who made the said suspension official when they closed the last minutes,” said the Nervionense club.
Sevilla, who highlighted that “they prepared the match plan with great attention to detail, as usual in every match played in “Jesus Navas Stadium”stressed his “total respect” for the “players’ right to strike.”
His rival on this first day, the UDG Tenerifewho traveled to Seville, also reported this Friday that his players decided to support the strike and did not show up for the match they were supposed to play at the Jesús Navas stadium against Sevilla.
“This resolution is in accordance with their decision to support the strike proposed by the unions, so, in this decision, “The club shows its support and respect for the will of the players.”explained the Canarian entity in a statement.
The unions FUTPRO, AFE, Futbolistas ON, CCOO and UGT They confirmed last Thursday that F League players will go on strike for the first two days of the competition, with the first scheduled for the weekend.
On the other hand, the Sevilla’s director of women’s football, Amparo Gutiérrez, announced on Friday night that they had “given the players full respect” for their right to strike and explained that “it has been a complicated week because of the uncertainty” and because they had not been able to “talk to the players about in this matter. .” , as provided by law.”
“Finally we can’t play anymore and we’re sad, because it doesn’t help us in what we have achieved, but we respect the footballers’ right to strike. “I put it to the captains on behalf of the club and in that sense we have nothing to say,” he said.
Amparo Gutiérrez also emphasized the effort made by the clubs, even if the match was not played due to the strike, because they invest “a lot of money so that the players have wealth and a good salary.”
“Maybe I’m not the most suitable person to make an assessment, but the feeling is sadness that this is happening. “Hopefully it will be resolved, we want to watch football and hopefully there will be an agreement,” stressed the head of Sevilla women’s football.
Source: La Verdad
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