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BERN (REUTERS) - Footballers in many parts of Asia face an uphill battle to ensure basic rights and the Covid-19 pandemic has made them especially vulnerable to wage cuts and redundancies, the global players' union Fifpro said on Tuesday (Sept 29). Although footballers' rights are a concern worldwide, the problem is acute in Asia because of a lack of dialogue with federations and clubs, Fifpro general secretary Jonas Baer-Hoffmann told reporters in a conference call. "The unfortunate reality is that in many parts of Asia, the level of engagement and collective bargaining is lacking and this is having an drastic...
