Reaction of V. Wänke, sport director, on rumoured benefaction of SFA to the detriment of licensed agents

Zdroj: SITA

SFA sport director Vladimír Wänke reacted to the Saturday article in the daily newspaper Pravda which wrote that the SFA without an authorization received a total of almost 430 000 Slovak crowns from three players agents applicants - Milan Lednický, Jozef Tokoš and Peter Židovský and this way "enriched" SFA to the detriment of the agents. The trio mentioned had to pay 5000 Swiss francs to be allowed to take license exams.

“For now I will not comment on the information, as I do not have the exact text of the document available. Anyway, allowed or not allowed, the size of fee is exactly stated in the FIFA regulation. However the strict size of the fee is not stated there.”

Everything is in the hands of associations or federations. National Associations are allowed to set the size of the fee related to the issued license. If you are interested, a sum of 5000 Swiss francs is laughable in Western countries and it is disproportionably higher in the countries of ex-eastern block for example in Poland or Hungary, too."

According to Pravda (and also the president of FIFA players agents commission Gianpaolo Monteneri was said to approve the statement), National Associations can reputedly charge only a fee covering costs related to the exam preparation (communication between FIFA, SFA and applicants, triple commission involvement, food). But associations should not profit from the exams preparation in any way.

“For a while I will not comment anything on this. But the SFA will come back to this topic and comment on it very soon, maybe by Monday,” answered the SFA sport director V. Wänke on the question about Tokos’s (one of the aggrieved) claim to the president of SFA František Laurinec to calculate the real costs of the SFA with his attendance on the exam and to give the rest of the money back (otherwise Tokoš will ask FIFA for the retrieval).

One of the aggrieved, Jozef Tokoš, said to Pravda: "I think that Associations should not pose any obstacles in getting the license and should not discriminate against applicants who passed strict exam criteria on the base of the social status”.