Volleyball players say they do not get paid 5 months

The Hunger Games ! In Pavlodar after the players club "Irtysh " became indignant volleyball . Athletes say they do not see a paycheck 5 months! The amount of debt close to $ 300,000, and the players have already started to miss training camp and the important matches . Officials have promised to solve the problem , but so far the team has only to tighten their belts .

Sporting spirit remained , but the financial incentive is melting before our eyes. Volleyball club "Pavlodar" sitting on a starvation diet . Five months they have not been paid , and the championship of Kazakhstan managed to earn a bronze alone enthusiasm.

Alexei Yutvalin , legionnaire volleyball club "Pavlodar" :
- We train , however , do not throw , ready, now went to the Cup , were third , that is, the enthusiasm , we can say all we do , but how - to resources that do not last forever .

Athletes complain, so they say, and close to a hungry fainting . Two and a half years , says the trainer , sponsors and city administration paid regularly . However, the new season once went wrong .

Meanwhile , each room rental for the team comes at a price , and the form for the new game of the season had to borrow . Helped a former athlete who opened a chain of stores sportswear, it was he who believed volleyball players on the floor and gave the team tracksuits and the special form.
Because of the lack of money the team has missed training camp and friendly matches in Barnaul and Novosibirsk. And then - like a snowball. The amount of debt under the salary reached nearly $ 300,000.

Nariman Sulejmenov captain of volleyball club "Pavlodar" :
- What are some of the problem set, and how to do them , to perform tasks when the money is not paid. There are parents somewhere parents can help , and so, of course , difficult.
A similar scandal occurred a few weeks ago in the football club " Irtysh" . Footballers debt for six months. They even threatened to sabotage the next game , if you do not repay the debts . But officials suddenly announced that salaries for athletes are irrelevant .

Marat Aydashev , head of the Office of Pavlodar region :
- According to the regulations of UEFA, FIFA, there is one of the points of priorities, it is non-interference of the state in the affairs of public associations, we do not regulate the activities of NGOs. We just work with them and work , so that's all these things that are happening in the clubs , the club is more competent in this area.

However, in the office reassured : they help athletes to solve part of the problem. November 7 seater maslihat will specify the amount of the regional budget will allocate athletes to travel.