MOSCOW (AP) β The Russian Football Union says it is close to paying national team coach Fabio Capello, who last received his salary six months ago.
Hit by financial problems, the RFU has been unable to meet Capello’s reported $11 million-a-year salary but could now pay the arrears as soon as Wednesday, RFU president Nikolai Tolstykh says.
The organization will use “any official source” of funds to “help the RFU fulfil its obligations to Capello,” Tolstykh was quoted as saying by the R-Sport agency.
Tolstykh also said the RFU had arranged to end a standoff with its own referees and match officials over unpaid wages, hours after the dispute became public.
The officials have not been paid for three months and are owed a total of over $440,000, a match inspector claimed Monday.
