Spanish players leave Northern Ireland football team due to 'overpriced and third-world' housing
Thursday, August 24, 2017 @ 8:43 PM
TWO Spanish footballers have quit the Northern Ireland-based Sofía Farmer FC after the team put them up in 'third-world' accommodation.
Álex Gil and Toni Jiménez, from Córdoba, were signed up by team manager Alberto del Barro – from Portugal – and were provided with housing in the UK region.
The players, aged 25, said they were charged 500 pounds (currently around €550) a month in rent.
They later found out the club was renting the house for just 330 pounds (€363) and pocketing the difference – something they discovered when they stumbled upon a copy of the contract whilst cleaning.
As if that was not enough to choke them off living and working in Britain, the players say the house had no electricity, the beds were broken and the mattresses filthy.
They had been told they would be living together in a self-contained flat, but discovered they were actually sharing with another couple who had no connection with the team.
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