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Rostrud allowed to defer the payment of Fabio Capello's salary
Rostrud allowed the Russian Football Union (RFU) to defer the payment of salaries to the head coach of the national team Fabio Capello until January 19.
Earlier it was reported that RFU President Nikolai Tolstykh could be removed from office if the RFU does not comply with the Rostrud order to pay Capello's salary by December 19.
The current debt of the RFU to Capello is 2.4 million euros. The penalty for early termination of the contract with the Italian is 30 million euros.
- Fabio Capello led the Russian national team in the summer of 2012. In January 2014, he extended his contract with the RFU for four years.
- Fabio Capello, as well as the general manager of the Russian national team, Oreste Cinquini, have not been paid salaries for six months.
- In early December, the head of the RFU, Nikolai Tolstykh, confirmed the existence of wage arrears for several months to Fabio Capello and Oreste Cinquini. At the same time, Tolstykh said that the RFU had no money to pay off the debt to them.