A glorious end to the “violet love”: now ex-coach Ante Šimundža has turned to the SPINS union, which accuses Maribor of breaking the rules
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He was dismissed in the midst of the battle for the top of the table in the Prva liga Telemach. After the defeat against Celje, all that he had given to Maribor was quickly forgotten. It is evident that Ante Šimundža took the fact that he had to make way for Boštjan Cesar very poorly. The rather sad ending of this “violet love” is also reflected in the fact that Ante Šimundža turned to the SPINS union after leaving Maribor.
“The coaching staff of NK Maribor, led by head coach Ante Šimundža, who ceased to work with the first team following the club’s decision, sought assistance from the SPINS union. Their coaching contracts contain added discriminatory provisions, which in practice means a violation of the instructions provided to clubs via the NZS circular 24/21 and the decision on the implementation of a unified contract for football coaches. Regarding international practice, it is worth noting numerous decisions by FIFA and CAS arbitration that have deemed such unilateral options in similar cases as unwritten,” SPINS stated on its official website.
The union, led by Dejan Stefanović, added that it has recently noticed an increase in violations of the unified coaching contract content. Concerning Ante Šimundža and his assistant Damjan Ošlaj, they noted: “It should be mentioned that representatives of the union met with the management of NK Maribor in the vicinity of Ljubljana to resolve the situation and urged them to comply with the unchanged provisions of the closed unified contract and to reach an agreement for the mutual termination of the contracts, which would satisfy both parties involved. At this moment, despite the change in the coaching staff, there is still no agreement for the mutual termination of the coaching contracts.“
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Author: editorial Football Planet