- Stay Connected
Socialize
BONNETI Gives FAZ Three Days Ultimatum To Pay His K5.5 Billion Dues
SACKED Chipolopolo coach, Dario Bonetti says he will report the Football Association of Zambia to FIFA if they do not comply with his three day ultimatum to pay out his contract.
Bonetti has told bolayathu.com that his lawyer D. Findly wrote to FAZ on Wednesday issuing the ultimatum saying failure to comply would leave him no option but take the matter to FIFA.
“Yesterday (Monday) my lawyer sent an official letter to FAZ where I have asked for all the money my contract is worth…They have three days to answer and pay,” he said.
He added: “After that I will be starting the official procedure from FIFA.”
Bonetti is demanding over K5.5 billion from FAZ for terminating his contract prematurely.
Bonetti was sacked 48 hours after qualifying the Chipolopolo to the 2012 Gabon/Equatorial Guinea Africa Cup.
Football house claimed the separation was mutual but the Italian said the case was different as he had only been informed by phone.
The Italian was pocketing about K135 million a month.
Bonetti says qualification to the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations gives him an automatic one-year contract extension.
By implication, Bonetti still has an additional 12 months to the initial contract that was due to expire in July 2012.
Since FAZ may have no reasonable cause for Bonetti’s exit, they would have to pay out his remaining 22 months totalling about K3.6 billion.
His assistants collectively pocket about K1.9 billion annually.
Bonetti indicated last week that he may exercise the option of reporting the matter to FIFA if FAZ fails to pay his dues.
When contacted FAZ communications officer Erick Mwanza said he had not yet seen the correspondence.
“I have not yet seen any correspondence from him but I will have to check with the registry,” Mwanza said.
Posted by Editor
on October 21, 2011. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
mwaka sekondi
October 21, 2011 at 1:07 pm
FAZ,Was the seperation not mutual according to media reports?
chambula makenge
October 21, 2011 at 1:14 pm
its so amazing how this country can spend so much money just to have an expatriet coach…why cant we have faith in our own coaches?
Samlindo
October 21, 2011 at 1:16 pm
That was total Madness, how much was Banda pocketing
Wren
October 21, 2011 at 1:25 pm
RB messed up by bringing this guy into our country. Why pay a person K135 million monthly in the 1st place when many zambians are suffering? Now employ a local coach and see how much you will be paying him!
Observer
October 21, 2011 at 1:33 pm
WHY PAY SO MUCH TO SOMEONE JUST PRETENDING TO TEACH OTHERS HOW TO PLAY SO CALLED FOOTBALL. I WONDER IF REALLY WE NEED SO MUCH MONEY PAY A GUY RUNNING AROUND KICKING THE BALL. ANYWHERE, I CARE LESS. IF I WAS SATA, FOOTBALL IS ONE OF THE SPORTS I WILL CARE LESS. AT LEAST ZAMBIA NETBALL NATIONAL TEAM WON SOMETHING AT JUST ENDED ALL AFRICA GAMES IN MOZXAMBIQUE DESPITE POOR FUNDING FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
spin
October 21, 2011 at 1:38 pm
daylight robbery we ve bin robbed
Pio
October 21, 2011 at 1:48 pm
FOR US ZAMBIAN AND TAXE PAYERS…..IT WAS MUTUALY CONCLUDED THERE FOR ANY FURTHER XPENCESS MUST GO TO FAZ!!!!
zambiana
October 21, 2011 at 2:02 pm
FAZ if you have such monies just buy mogue equipment for SAMFYA hospital dont west tax pay.
Mwenya capetown
October 21, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Since Banda brought him,let him be paid from his pension.Next time get a local coach.
ubanzakulanga
October 21, 2011 at 2:13 pm
give wat belongs to caesar, comprendre’ faz!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vibez
October 21, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Am amazed @ de wastage of tax payers mane pliz FAZ pay him u knew where 2 get de monies 4 u terminate de contract prematualy lets B serious in de way we manage our football
Analyst
October 21, 2011 at 2:28 pm
useless FAZ lads…you see now..every day its FAZ in the papers…FAZ this… FAZ that..pay him and justify to the nation why you fired him…i havent evn read any serious matters of firing this guy…FAZ…full of fools.
Dragsquard Mbewe
October 21, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Vindalama upaka, u min pipo rake tax payers money just watching men chasing a skin of an animal which died a long time ago!And what do we get in return, early exit from tornaments.Zambians,lets try 2 divate our focus 2 a different sport descipline. This is madness at its peak yabaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!RB & Sons pliz comment.
xd
October 21, 2011 at 2:39 pm
I think i recently listened to a sports programme on radio QFM where a senior FAZ official publicly mentioned that Bonnet had not signed any contract with FAZ, as he was just imposed (on FAZ)by the former President, not so? And he was very confidently saying so on radio. If this is the situation, then this guy is probably just singing a song without a voice. Who is going to give him all that huge amount of cash? We need that money to build Universities or improve health service delivery within our country. Just get back to Italy my man. We thank you for having stayed in Zambia in the past few months. Enjoy the flight. By the way, is it SAA, BA or Ethiopian airlines?
Divine
October 21, 2011 at 2:44 pm
I don’t believe this 135 million per month? come on i read how a footballer was sleeping in the stadium due to lack of funds and now am reading this? zambian’s getting peanuts while the coach is getting all this money, some of us we can’t even get a loan this much! viva mr president do something ….
swt k
October 21, 2011 at 3:11 pm
indalama shesu shaya!!!!!!!FAZZ you are wasting our money just look for a local coach before you land into problems.the money is too much this is not what we use pay the late Ashos Melu.Mwalailetelela Mr. sata is in the office he will jump on You.
Eugene
October 21, 2011 at 3:19 pm
king coby will spit his vernom on FAZ with “IMMEDIATE EFFECT”
NKHUYU ZODYA MWANA ZIPOTA MAKE
October 21, 2011 at 3:26 pm
We need a commission of inquiry to probe FAZ. If FAZ were such extravagant with their friend who was reportedly employed through State House, then they deserve to be jailed too.
Kapovu
October 21, 2011 at 3:31 pm
tubale tuleke fye ukuteya bolla kabili nokuwina tatuwina. bushe teti tuciteko fimbi bolla nga yashupa? twambe fye ukulima rice.
William Mulenga
October 21, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Paying one person K135m, that’s U$27,000 per month. Zambians at times behave as if their nation is the richest nation on earth yet it is one of the poorest. Ba Faz just get the local coach and give whatever money you have to players to motivate them. You will get the best coach in the world but if players are not motivated you will still get zero results.
sansah
October 21, 2011 at 3:40 pm
I think it is good that he is suing. Why do we have to hire white people each time as though there are no local people that can teach. Why pay someone K135 million a month for football. You cant pay a doctor who saves lives that much.
IN 90 DAYS
October 21, 2011 at 3:44 pm
FAZ settles for Renard
Friday, 21 October 2011 11:50 administrator
E-mail Print PDF
Former Chipolopolo coach Herve Renard is new Zambia coach.
FAZ president Kalusha Bwalya is expected to announce Renard’s appointment during a press briefing at 15:00 hours today.
Renard was Zambia coach between May 2008 and February 2010.
The Frenchman quit his position for a lucrative deal with the Palancas Negras of Angola where he was sacked barely six months in the contract.
Renard later joined an Algerian side where he currently is but has been keen to return to Zambia.
He guided Zambia to a third finish at the inaugural CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN).
Renard became the first coach to take Zambia to the quarter-finals since 1994.
Antonio
October 21, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Its nonsense to start complaining about his package now.You yobs think you can just wake up with a hangover and fire people at will? Thats what he is entitled to and he will be paid either through FAZ itself Govt or FIFA,leave with it.
kaunda
October 21, 2011 at 5:03 pm
tHERE MUST BE SOMETHING FOR RUPIAH OUT OF THAT 5.5B
mkn
October 21, 2011 at 5:40 pm
135 million PER MONTH? That kind of money will pay a single class teacher for more than 6 years! Zambia the REAL Africa indeed. LET US ‘LIVE SIMPLY SO THAT OTHERS MAY SIMPLY LIVE’. Please Mr. President as civil servants we are on our knees…
meswin
October 21, 2011 at 6:24 pm
K135million wow!!!! We pay taxes but we don’t even get 5% per month of that every month & some pipo work 4 that amount of money 4 50years & now it’s 65years wow! This is serious,we need to do something here.
Mickmouse
October 21, 2011 at 6:24 pm
hmm! quite a nice pay.. well, im made to understand his paycheque was being cut by KCM as part of the sponsorship deal. i believe with the sacking of the guy, faz will have to pay one way or the other. one has to understand the faz deal to comment from an informed perspective. But $27,000 per month is too much, whether KCM or taxpayers money.
kunda2016
October 21, 2011 at 8:43 pm
THIS Erick Mwanza IS AN AAARRRRSSSSEEEEE HOLE OF A JOURNALIST
James
October 21, 2011 at 9:01 pm
I totaly agree with william, thez need for us to motivate our player if we are to get the best from them, its not enough to just give the coach a good salary but also the players, besides k135million is just too much, we hope 100million is not for RB and the 35million for the italian tourist.
moyo chingola
October 21, 2011 at 9:47 pm
according to wat i know bonnett had no contract with FAZ he signed a contract with bwezani at state house so he must sue bwezani before he flees the country