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Published: Wednesday | March 11, 2009
Gordon Williams, Gleaner Writer
( L - R ) Reid, Marshall
Members of Jamaica's national football squad which played in the Digicel Caribbean Championship (DCC), are upset that they still have not received prize money earned for winning the tournament in mid-December.
However, while the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) admits payment to players is still outstanding, it tied the delay to actions of the previous JFF administration.
The JFF has also promised to make good on its commitment to the players soon.
According to captain Tyrone Marshall, the squad of 20 players agreed to waive their regular match fees to play the DCC, an effort to relieve the cash-strapped JFF of the burden of paying them. In return, the players agreed with the JFF to share the prize money.
Jamaica beat Grenada 2-0 in the December 14 final to win US$120,000. Some $20,000 of that total should have been split among the team's technical staff. The remainder - US$100,000 - should have been divided equally among the squad.
Yet, despite concerned enquiries by players, none has been paid, Marshall explained on Monday evening.
"The players are disgruntled," he said.
"We have received no money. I don't think it is fair to the players. They promised to pay us in four weeks. It's now going on 10 weeks."
Should be paid soon
According to the JFF, the players should be paid soon. DCC sponsors Digicel turned over Jamaica's prize money to the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), which was expected to forward the money to the JFF. The players would then be paid.
However, the prize money, the JFF said in an e-mail response from general secretary Horace Reid yesterday, was not paid on time because the CFU was owed by the previous JFF administration led by Crenston Boxhill.
"The funds to be paid by the CFU were withheld due to the reconciliation process taking place in the matter of unpaid game cess by the JFF to the CFU for international games dating back to the previous JFF regime", Reid stated.
"All these have now been paid up and funds were received at the CFU Congress held in Tobago on Sunday, March 8," he added.
Reid also explained that "as soon as the banking arrangements are finalised the players will all be paid".
But the players have not been happy.
"(The delay) is disgraceful, to be honest," added Marshall, who said he understands the current JFF administration might not be totally at fault.
Reid said the JFF believed from day one it would keep its promise. "We were always confident in making good on the commitment given in this instance and it was therefore never a case of if, but rather when payments would be made to the players," he stated.
Published: Wednesday | March 11, 2009
Gordon Williams, Gleaner Writer
( L - R ) Reid, Marshall
Members of Jamaica's national football squad which played in the Digicel Caribbean Championship (DCC), are upset that they still have not received prize money earned for winning the tournament in mid-December.
However, while the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) admits payment to players is still outstanding, it tied the delay to actions of the previous JFF administration.
The JFF has also promised to make good on its commitment to the players soon.
According to captain Tyrone Marshall, the squad of 20 players agreed to waive their regular match fees to play the DCC, an effort to relieve the cash-strapped JFF of the burden of paying them. In return, the players agreed with the JFF to share the prize money.
Jamaica beat Grenada 2-0 in the December 14 final to win US$120,000. Some $20,000 of that total should have been split among the team's technical staff. The remainder - US$100,000 - should have been divided equally among the squad.
Yet, despite concerned enquiries by players, none has been paid, Marshall explained on Monday evening.
"The players are disgruntled," he said.
"We have received no money. I don't think it is fair to the players. They promised to pay us in four weeks. It's now going on 10 weeks."
Should be paid soon
According to the JFF, the players should be paid soon. DCC sponsors Digicel turned over Jamaica's prize money to the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), which was expected to forward the money to the JFF. The players would then be paid.
However, the prize money, the JFF said in an e-mail response from general secretary Horace Reid yesterday, was not paid on time because the CFU was owed by the previous JFF administration led by Crenston Boxhill.
"The funds to be paid by the CFU were withheld due to the reconciliation process taking place in the matter of unpaid game cess by the JFF to the CFU for international games dating back to the previous JFF regime", Reid stated.
"All these have now been paid up and funds were received at the CFU Congress held in Tobago on Sunday, March 8," he added.
Reid also explained that "as soon as the banking arrangements are finalised the players will all be paid".
But the players have not been happy.
"(The delay) is disgraceful, to be honest," added Marshall, who said he understands the current JFF administration might not be totally at fault.
Reid said the JFF believed from day one it would keep its promise. "We were always confident in making good on the commitment given in this instance and it was therefore never a case of if, but rather when payments would be made to the players," he stated.
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