Indonesian football spends more than 200 billion VND just to fire a coach

Not only did the Indonesian Football Federation fail professionally, it also had to pay a heavy price for its decision to sign a contract with coach Patrick Kluivert 9 months ago.

Coach Kluivert receives extremely high salary in Indonesia - Photo: BL

Nine months ago, the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) appointed Patrick Kluivert as the head coach of the Indonesian national team on a two-year contract, with a salary of about 2.5 billion rupiah per month (about 150,000 USD/month).

After 9 months of work, PSSI had to pay the Dutch strategist more than 1.35 million USD. And when they fired him, Kluivert still had 15 months left on his contract.

According to Kompas , there will be no "discount agreement" between the two sides to reduce the compensation. PSSI is forced to pay the full salary for the remaining 15 months of the contract for coach Kluivert.

Thus, PSSI must compensate Coach Kluivert an amount of about 2.25 million USD. This is only for the Dutch strategist personally.

In addition, the Indonesian football authority also has to compensate the team following coach Kluivert with a total of about 2.5 million USD.

The total compensation PSSI must pay regarding the dismissal of coach Kluivert is up to nearly 5 million USD, or about 130 billion VND.

In early 2025, PSSI had to pay compensation of up to 3.6 million USD (95 billion VND) to fire coach Shin Tae Yong - who had 2.5 years left on his contract, and was earning 1.5 million USD/year at that time.

Thus, in just the past 9 months, PSSI has spent more than 200 billion VND just to compensate for the dismissal of the coach.

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HUY DANG

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/bong-da-indonesia-ton-hon-200-ti-dong-chi-de-sa-thai-hlv-20251017182433331.htm