Cagliari players give up month's salary to avoid team layoffs

Italian top-flight club Cagliari has anunced that ir first-team squad have agreed to forego ir salaries for month of April. Club president Tommaso Giulini thanked players "for ir sensitivity in wanting to contribute to protecting club in a particularly complicated and difficult to predict period". "As also requested by signatories of document, this transaction will contribute to a drastic reduction in layoffs of club employees," Sardinian club added.

Players at Serie A teams including Juventus, Roma and Parma have already agreed to cut salaries in midst of coronavirus pandemic which has killed nearly 31,000 in Italy. football has been played in Italy for over two months, but team training is expected to resume on May 18.

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