MADRID – Players from Spanish soccer club Elche did not return to practice on Wednesday as a protest against reduced salaries.
The players for the second-division club were supposed to practice at the team’s stadium but decided to keep training at home to show their discontentment with the team’s decision not to lift the furloughs that had been put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Players want to resume earning full salaries now that they are back to training and the league is expected to restart. The players practiced normally on Tuesday.
The club from southeastern Spain said it was negotiating with them. Like most clubs in Spain, Elche used government furloughs to reduce its labor costs during the pandemic.