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Contracts Signed Hours Before The Game
posted (July 10, 2013)
And one of the distractions that Slusher fought hard to have the team avoid was the worry about their contracts. This was a thorny issue because the team was promised certain monies earlier on in the year, which the Football Federation of Belize said that they couldn't deliver.

The team was working hard to negotiate with the FFB, but the President said that he couldn't sign any contract with the team because he didn't want to promise them anything he couldn't deliver on.

As a result, the finalized contracts were not handed out until Sunday afternoon, and they weren't signed until a few hours before the game yesterday, by Sergio Chuc, the head of delegation and the FFB Senior Vice-President.

Jules spoke with the FFB Executive Member Marlon Kuylen, who told him that this issue was resolved comfortably for both sides.




Marlon Kuylen - FFB Executive Member
"The contract was given to them two days ago - we called up the team captain to the room where we were drafting the contract, we made him go through the whole thing and he was satisfied that it was what we promised them. The following morning, which was Sunday morning we gave the contracts to all the players and we told them to take it to their rooms and to go over it, sign it and bring it back to us. But they just brought it to us today to sign."

Reporter
"Is it basically the same thing that was said in Belize that they would be getting so much per game and $5,000 after wards for participating in the tournament and that they would get 50% more if they were to advance to the next round."

Marlon Kuylen
"That is exactly what was promised to them and that is what is in the contract."

The final contract included a fee of $75 per day while in the US, a match fee of $250 US per game, and a participation award of $5,000 Belize for each member. As a bonus, if the team qualifies to the next round, the FFB has agreed to split the earnings from that with the players 50/50.

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