GENEVA (AP) — Soccer players in Belarus are worried about playing games in the only European top-tier league still in action during the coronavirus pandemic, their global union said Tuesday.
“Frankly, it’s not comprehendible how this can be going on,” Jonas Baer-Hoffmann, general secretary of the FIFPro players’ union, told reporters in a conference call.
“Yes, there are players who are reaching out concerned,” Baer-Hoffmann said, noting there are union members in Belarus though the FIFPro network does not have an affiliate in the former Soviet country.
Labor issues in soccer are mounting as a near-total shutdown of the world’s favorite sport extends with no end in sight.