The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has paid the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) towards the salary of the foreign coach.
According to the details, PSB released the salary payment of foreign coach Siegfried Ekman from November 2021 to April 2022.
The value of the check issued by PSB to PHF is one crore 30 lakh 13 thousand 435 rupees.
DG Pakistan Sports Board Shoaib Khoso handed over the check for payment of coach’s salary to Secretary General PHF Haider Hussain. Member Selection Committee PHF Olympian Shakeel Abbasi was also present on the occasion.
On this occasion, PHF Secretary General Haider Hussain said that he is grateful to Director General (DG) PSB Shoaib Khoso and Inter-Provincial Coordination Minister Ehsan Mazari for their special measures and cooperation in relation to the payment of foreign coach’s salary.
The sports board has initially paid five months’ salary of the foreign coach.
He further said that development of national sports is not an easy task without the support of Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination, Pakistan Sports Board. PHF has ensured participation in international events despite financial difficulties. In recent events, Pakistan has improved its international ranking. Pakistan has won two medals in recent three international events. With which the journey of development of Pakistan Hockey has started.
Olympian Shakeel Abbasi said that DG Sports Board Shoaib Khoso is doing exemplary work. Playing an important role in the revival of hockey by cooperating with the national game.
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