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Disappointment of Formentera athletes with the Consell due to non-payment of sponsorships

Some of the island's most prominent and influential sports figures are still waiting to be paid the economic sums promised to them for the year 2021, money that should have been received in September 2020

Everyone understands that the economy is in a poor place right now. In addition, the administrations’ lack of resources and solvency complicates any issue. However, administrations should be conscious of the problems that their slow bureaucracy poses to the lives of elite athletes who rely on aid and sponsorship contracts to grow their activity on a daily basis.

According to Diario de Ibiza, some of Formentera’s most prominent and important sports figures are quite upset and disappointed with the Consell of Formentera’s position and lack of manners with them, whose new technical director of the Sports Department is responsible for continually dragging their feet in relation to their claims for the excessive delay they have been enduring to collect the money owed to them under their sponsorship agreements, economic amounts for the year 2021 and that should have been received in September 2020.

With amounts ranging between 2,000 and 3,000 euros, in some cases, for the purchase of sports equipment and travel, which were advanced at the time by the athletes, they are still expecting confirmation of payment of that debt by the Formentera island government.

“It is a complaint that we make, and we want to bring it to light because we are saddened by the embarrassing and concerning condition we are in.  That money is a gift that permits us to progress. And the fact that we have to be like this is truly heartbreaking,” says Andrea Romero, the Spanish under-20 champion in the 1,500 meters in 2019 and the national bronze medalist and under-23 Balearic record holder in the 3,000 meters in 2021.

In this line, the Formentera athlete claims that despite insisting on several occasions to the Sports Department in recent weeks, they have yet to receive confirmation and are still waiting for a date to be told when they will be paid the sponsorship contract money they signed with the Consell of Formentera for 2021.

This is an exhausting scenario since it is disappointing. It’s heartbreaking. They promise you one thing and then deliver on the other.

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Athlete Andrea Romero from Formentera

“This is money that I have personally advanced.” They even promised me that I could quit the training camp since there would be no difficulty. But the truth is that the money that I advanced has yet to arrive,” the athlete writes, adding, “the only thing they tell us is that there have been complications and that the law has changed. And all they do is manufacture excuses and give us a long time. As a result, we’ve got the same thing since January 2021 until today. And we still don’t have anything, and we don’t get an answer. Another year has passed.”

For the full article, please visit Diario de Ibiza website here.

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