Ex-coach chasing payment

FORMER national men’s football team coach Flemming Serritslev says he is yet to receive his outstanding payment from the Papua New Guinea Football Association (PNGFA).
The Dane spent 18 months in charge of PNG, a period highlighted by a runners-up finish in the 2016 Oceania Football Confederation Nations Cup in Port Moresby, where they lost the final on penalties against New Zealand.
But the 73-year-old, who was appointed as Fiji head coach in January, left three months before the end of his contract, after PNGFA failed to pay him for the final year of his tenure.
“For me, the players they were outstandingly good to work with, no doubt about this,” former Denmark assistant coach Serritslev said.
“But really, I have some outstandings (with PNGFA). They haven’t answered my emails.
“I don’t know if they believe that now they’ve got a new president, they don’t need to take care of their outstandings.
“I don’t know if that’s the case or not.”
John Kapi Natto, elected as PNGFA president in October 2018, said his administration was still dealing with a number of issues carried over from the previous regime.
“I’m still carrying these legacy issues from the past regime of not completing the payment of the last coach,” he said.
“I just don’t know how they’ve done it. I just don’t know how it happened that way.
“So we’re trying to clear that debt out of the way.
“If we bring in an external coach, it is for a short term, and we may negotiate the terms and conditions of the coach.” – Fiji Times