Two members of Nigeria’s Super Eagles’ squad to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, Uche Nwofor and Michael Uchebo have accused Portuguese football club Boavista of treating them like slaves.
In a series of tweets by BBC’s Oluwashina Okeleji, via his twitter handle @oluwashina the players’ stories were told.
According to the posts, the two forwards were approached by their clubs and asked to take a paycut at the beginning of the 2016/17 season. They refused, leading the Boavista President to give an instruction that they be completely isolated.
Consequently, Uchebo and Nwofor were ‘barred from the club’s training ground, shunned at team gatherings and isolated from training with the rest of the team.’
When the two Nigerians attempted to use the club facilities, they were turned back by security men acting on the orders of the Boavista President.
Uche Nwofor, in an attempt to salvage his career asked that his contract be terminated, which the club agreed to. He was due a €110,000 compensation which the President Alvara Braga, refused to pay. It was discovered by Nwofor’s handlers and FIFPro that Boavista misled the League body by only registering the contract termination and leaving out the payment of the compensation.
The deadline for the payment of the compensation has since elapsed with Boavista refusing to pay and refusing to respond to Nwofor’s call to have them pay him the said amount.
According to one of the player’s representatives, Kobe Benson, “the club is a notoriously dishonest side with no respect for FIFA rules/regulations. No options but to report them to the authorities. With the amount of evidence, I have no doubt that they will be punished severely.”
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