Boavista returned to training this Monday, with the promise of regularizing the salary arrears of the employees of the Estádio do Bessa, in Porto, responsible for the cancellation of the I Liga football club’s activities on Sunday.
A source linked to the process assured the Lusa agency that the morning preparation of the group led by Petit took place normally on the secondary lawn of the venue, whose doors had been closed the day before, due to the position adopted by the employees, who repeated the protest led by the cadres’ doctors.
On Saturday, the Boavista SAD administration had settled the pending salaries requested by the club’s medical service professionals, whose unavailability also caused the cancellation of a training session hours before the reception at Famalicão (2-2).
The holding of the seventh round match could be in doubt, since, according to the third point of article 61 of the Regulations for Competitions organized by the Portuguese Professional Football League (LPFP), the presence of a doctor on the bench substitutes are mandatory, a situation that was guaranteed with the salary regularization carried out.
In addition to Petit, the team’s president, Vítor Murta, recently acknowledged the existence of unpaid salaries in the structure of Porto’s shield, which was even prevented by FIFA from registering new players in the summer transfer market.
Made official on Tuesday as a reinforcement of the Queens Park Rangers, of the English secondary league, the North American defender Reggie Cannon had unilaterally terminated his contract with Boavista in June, alleging back wages, being the process to be followed by FIFA and the common justice, which will deliberate on the just cause and possible compensation.
The ‘panthers’ remain in fourth place in the I Liga, with 14 points, just behind the isolated leader Sporting, with 19, the national champion Benfica, with 18, and FC Porto, with 16, having one of the seconds most successful attacks of the championship. competition season, with 17 goals scored.
Source: TSF
