Match official Sergey Ivanov made the declare to Russian media
UEFA has not paid Russian referee Sergey Ivanov and his staff for work they accomplished in a Europa Convention League match in February, in line with the FIFA-registered official.
Ivanov made the declare to Match TV on Monday, in relation to a match he officiated on February 24 when Norwegian staff Bodo-Glimt defeated Scottish rivals Celtic in a playoff tie.
Ivanov refereed the sport, whereas compatriots Roman Usachev and Dmitry Safyan served as assistant referees and Vladimir Moskalev was the fourth official.
“The blokes and I labored in Norway on the playoffs of the Convention League. We managed to return, the planes had been nonetheless flying, however we nonetheless haven’t been paid a wage for that sport. Not as a result of they do not need to [pay us], however just because they can not,” Ivanov stated.
Requested if UEFA had defined to Russian referees that they’d not be allowed to work in European competitions, contemplating that Russian groups and golf equipment are banned as a consequence of the army operation in Ukraine, Ivanov answered: “Formally, no.”
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“When the particular operation started, (head of the UEFA refereeing committee) Roberto Rosetti known as us with common phrases,” Ivanov added.
“And they also didn’t take away us from anyplace. It’s simply written that we had been suspended from appointments, as a result of there isn’t any method to make these appointments.”
When pushed to disclose whether or not he was afraid of attainable provocations and fears for the protection of Russian referees, Ivanov steered that it won’t be a good suggestion for them to start out engaged on matches in Europe, given the present political local weather.
“How can they assign us to a sport if they’ll neither pay salaries nor ebook aircraft tickets?” Ivanov stated.
“When the state of affairs stabilizes, then we are going to give it some thought, [but] now the query of European competitions is irrelevant. Though UEFA hasn’t minimize off contact with us – it sends supplies, we take part in on-line seminars,” he added.
Ivanov’s feedback come after Russian Sports activities Minister Oleg Matytsin revealed that the nation remains to be awaiting compensation funds for a lot of main sporting occasions it was stripped of following an Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) advice made on the finish of February.
These embrace the UEFA 2022 Champions League remaining, which was moved from St. Petersburg to Paris, the 2022 Males’s World Volleyball Championship, and the junior and males’s Ice Hockey World Championships subsequent 12 months.
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Amid different sanctions on the earth of sport, System 1 additionally terminated its deal to carry annual Grand Prix races in Russia.
In line with Matytsin, compensation claims nonetheless have not been resolved because the 12 months heads into its remaining quarter.
“No [we have not received all the money], we’re within the course of,” the minister defined to RIA Novosti from the Jap Financial Discussion board in Vladivostok earlier this month.
“Our nationwide federations, those that filed claims, a few of them are within the negotiation course of with worldwide federations, so we hope for a profitable resolution,” he added.
