Too much work or an aim to suppress the truth?

Even after the second letter from FIFA, the association did not provide an official announcement concerning the SFA license managers’ exam unauthorized fee

Approximately two months ago, Daily Sport published a broad article about the unauthorized request from the SFA regarding the payment of 5000 Swiss francs for taking license manager’s exams. In spite of the letter from Gianpaolo Monteneri, the chief of the statute of FIFA players committee, the management of Slovak football did not take any action. The letter was drawing attention to the incorrect process, since according to the rules of the organization, national associations can only charge reasonable fees covering the costs linked to preparing the exams. Namely, in the letter addressed to the president of SFA František Laurinec it was clearly stated that associations should not profit from giving the exams, as happened in Slovakia.

SFA employees who we asked for help with the problem at that time, passed on the problem without dealing with it, and nobody wanted to declare the statement officially. What is even more striking, is that during more than eight months, when the first exams took place in Slovakia, nobody from the association management managed to officially answer the requests of Jozef Tokos, one of the SFA license agents, who pointed out the problem to the Slovak football management.

As Gianpaolo Monteneri stated, SFA received another fax from Zürich last week, by which FIFA is again drawing attention to the interpretation of the relevant article “Rules of FIFA players’ agents” and is asking for the re-evaluation of the whole situation with the regard to the FIFA regulations.

At the same time he is informing Jozef Tokos, SFA license agent, that it didn’t happen until yesterday. In another letter from May 16th, 2002 addressed to František Laurinec and the new General secretary Dušan Tittel, who has only been engaged into the problem recently, but who at the same time is the only one from the SFA to at least promise the agent a quick execution of the request, Tokoš asked for the quantification of the real costs of the preparation and realization of the players agents’ exams, and consequently asked for the refund of the relevant part of 5000 Swiss francs fee.

Meantime second players agents’ exams took place in Slovakia at the end of March, from which new SFA license agent Vladimir Varga qualified. By the way, although the association already knew that the fee is not correct, he had to pay the exaggerated amount, too.

While there are no doubts that the association agenda is full, we cannot avoid the impression that authorities are trying to suppress and forget the whole problem. And it is not a good start to the four-year term that started only in March this year, for the newly elected officials.