Things happen in Uerdingen that are otherwise only known from the district league!
Welcome to Germany’s worst chaos club – players and fans are the poorest pigs here, as it were. In the table, the 1985 DFB Cup winner is currently ranked 9th somewhere in the third division. Economically, the once so ambitious association is finally on the brink of the abyss after the flight of the Russian financier and President Mikail Ponomarev (46 / BILD reported).
He is emotionally tired and feels left alone by the city of Krefeld, says Ponomarev. He is said to have a successor himself, and in the past few days, Armenian investors have been sighted in the KFC environment. Whether they will take over the pile of ruins – highly doubtful. If the plan fails, Uerdingen faces bankruptcy. A scenario that the team has been thinking about for a long time. You simply cannot ignore the many signals …
► For the months of October and November, the salaries for players and coaches were – once again – paid late. When BILD reported on the outstanding salary payments in mid-December, Ponomarev complained internally how something like this could be in the newspaper – instead of paying on time. Particularly difficult: The club no longer even pays the social security contributions, which the health insurance companies often take as an opportunity to initiate criminal proceedings against the employer. It would then be a case for the prosecution.
► The stadium rent – Uerdingen is currently playing in Fortuna Düsseldorf’s stadium – is only paid sporadically, more than EUR 200,000 usage fee was open in the meantime. The home game against Unterhaching was even about to be canceled in November because the stadium operator refused to unlock the gates for Uerdingen.
► Most recently, several players won against Ponomarev in court, all of whom complained about outstanding salary payments. World champion Kevin Großkreutz (32) won an amount of around 442,500 euros.
► Because the KFC did not pay the team doctors in some cases, they no longer wanted to work. The players had to call the doctors and plead with them to come. Ex-player Alexander Bittroff (32), who now plays for league competitor Magdeburg: “We partially trained in the villages because we didn’t have a reasonable space. The physiotherapists didn’t even have devices such as ultrasound. “
► In the meantime the team didn’t even have bandages for the joints. The club simply didn’t order any. And he can no longer order any more on site because every pharmacy in the city refuses to hand over utensils to the KFC on account.
► Because of the unpaid salaries, some young players in particular have recently got into financial problems who, among other things, could no longer pay their rents. Strong: The top earners then collected money in the dressing room for their teammates …
Ex-KFC goalkeeper René Vollath (30), who also complained (and got the right): “The KFC’s now well-known approach is responsible for the fact that the focus is not on football. To be so successful in the long term is very difficult to impossible. “
Uerdingen is sinking into chaos!
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