Agyemang-Badu Udinese's Serie A game with Parma cancelled as Gialloblù face possible administration

By Akyereko Frimpong Manson
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Ghana midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu will not be in action this weekend with Udinese as their Serie A game with Parma is cancelled over Parma's inability to host the game due to financial crisis. 

According to reports from Italy, Parma have not paid their players, technical team, stadium attendants and all other workers at the clubs for the past eight months.

Though the playing body were willing and ready to play, their support staffs have decided to lay down their tools making it impossible for the game to be honoured.

For Agyemang-Badu and the rest of the Udinese contingent, on Friday afternoon, they were ready to take the three hour drive from Udine to Parma for the game when the news was confirmed by the Serie A governing authority –  Italian Football Federation.

An official statement has confirmed: ”Having spoken with the Professional Footballers' Association and Italian Football Coaches' Associaton, who expressed the players' and coaches' aversion to playing behind closed doors, and having spoken with the mayor of the City of Parma, and in agreement with the president of the Lega Serie A, it has been decided that the game between Parma and Udinese, scheduled to take place on February 22, 2015, will be postponed to a future date to be determined by the Lega Serie A,” read the statement, signed by FIGC president Carlo Tavecchio.

For Parma, it has become a soar times for club President Giampietro Manenti who has said the club is only in their current financial mess because difficulty in transferring money from abroad.

As a result of the situation, Parma lost Ghana midfielder Afriyie Acquah who was playing at the club on loan but move to Sampdoria when the winter transfer window opened.

In the worst case, the club could be demoted from the top-flight if the situation is not arrested.