2024-01-03T07:48:04+00:00
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/ Al-Shirqat Sports Club threatened, on Wednesday, to withdraw from the Iraqi Premier League football competitions due to the stifling financial hardship and neglect of the local government, despite many appeals and mediations.
The club’s president, Dhamir Abdel Razzaq, told Agency, “Most of the team’s players started moving to other clubs due to the empty budget, financial hardship, and lack of support from any party in the governorate. The team has been without salaries for three months.”
He added, “We submitted more than a thousand appeals and more than 50 mediations to the governor of Salah al-Din to save the team, but we did not receive any response from the governor, even though Al-Shirqat represents the governorate alongside the Samarra team in the Premier Football League and is capable of reaching advanced stages in the team rankings.”
Abdul Razzaq, Governor of Salah al-Din, called for “contacting the governors of Nineveh and Anbar to find out the amount of support they provide to the sports clubs in their governorates,” considering the current conditions of the Shirqat team to be “miserable and deplorable, which has caused public frustration in Shirqat and the entire Saladin Governorate.”
Al-Sharqat plays in the second group of the Premier League alongside the clubs Al-Karma, Al-Fahd, Samarra, Al-Nasiriyah, Peshmerga, Masafi Al-Janoub, Al-Etisalat, Al-Hussein, and Afak, and occupies tenth place in its group with only four points.