MOSCOW, Oct 25 The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ordered the football club » Rostov» to pay the debt under the employment contract to coach Kurban Berdyev, according to the Telegram channel of the legal group «Clever Consult». Earlier, the Dispute Resolution Chamber of the Russian Football Union (RFU) ordered Rostov to pay off the debt under the contract to the former coach Berdyev. According to media reports, the amount of debt was 35 million rubles. «The CAS meeting was held at the end of January 2020, however, due to the large delays associated with the pandemic, the parties received a decision only at the end of August. The meeting lasted several hours, I had to cite as an example the practice of CAS and Russian courts in similar cases, as well as refer to fundamental legal principles in order to convince the CAS arbitrators of the validity of their position,» lawyer Anna Antseliovich said. Currently, 70-year-old Berdyev heads the Iranian «Tractor». In Russia, Berdyev twice led the Kazan «Rubin» to gold medals, became the silver medalist of the RPL with «Rostov».
