Pakistan’s Dutch hockey trainer resigns after now not getting paid for one year

Pakistan’s Dutch hockey trainer, Siegfried Aikman has resigned from his publish after now not getting paid for the remaining one year.

Aikman, who had joined the nationwide staff remaining 12 months, took to social media to announce he had formally resigned as head trainer.

Regardless that Aikman had returned house from Pakistan overdue remaining 12 months over a wage dispute, he didn’t relinquish the publish looking ahead to his arrears to be cleared. However with out a answer in sight, he has made up our minds to renounce.

Across the time Aikman despatched in his resignation to the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), every other Dutch trainer, Roelant Oltmans, arrived in Pakistan and can fly out with the nationwide junior squad to Muscat for the Asia Junior Cup on Sunday evening.

PHF showed that Oltmans had arrived in Lahore and brought rate of the junior staff for the continental match.

PHF has now not indicated who pays Oltman’s wage or whether or not Aikman’s dues will probably be cleared.

Aikman were employed by way of PHF after the Pakistan Sports activities Board (PSB) mentioned it might pay the Dutch trainer’s wage. A standoff between the PHF and PSB over elections and constitutional problems ended in a state of affairs the place the state-controlled frame has stopped investment to the PHF.

“Even the (investment of the) staff we now have despatched to Oman has been achieved by way of elevating cash thru personal donors and sponsors,” mentioned a PHF authentic.