Soccer player Edinho announced on Friday that he will take legal action against Fábio Lopes, president and founder of Villa Athletic, a club founded this year that did not compete in the Portalegre Football Association, where he was registered.
In a video uploaded to social networks, the Portuguese international revealed that the Villa Athletic players were notified by ’email’ by Fábio Lopes’ lawyer, announcer and ‘influencer’, on Friday about a debt that “is not in compliance” and only “some players” are recognized.
“I am one of the players to whom he does not recognize any debt and, as such, I will act legally to go in search of what is mine, what belongs to me. Because he forgets that he came looking for me with a dream. , a project where I would be the face and help bring in other players, as it happened”, says Edinho in the publication.
In October, after the economic difficulties of some players due to the new club’s wage arrears became known, Fábio Lopes admitted that the newly created club was going through “very difficult days”, due to economic difficulties, and that it was looking for “viability”. solutions” for the project.
But on October 25, the Portalegre Football Association announced that Villa Athletic Club was withdrawing from participating in the senior district championship and all other competitions in which it had registered teams.
Founded on June 14, 2022, based in Ponte de Sor, Villa Athletic Club was registered in the Associação de Futebol de Portalegre (AFP) competitions, but missed the first match of the AFP Cup and, in the second round , in Elvas, played with 12 players, without a coaching staff and with a team loaned by the Grupo Desportivo Samora Correia.
Source: TSF
