Translated. Kleermaker really an unhappy fellow.
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The British Darts Organization (BDO) is in very bad weather. The room of the BDO World Cup Darts is hardly filled and messages about financial flaters are piling up. The players also do not know where they stand.
This morning rumors came out that the prize money from the BDO Darts World Championship will go even further down. World Cup participant Martijn Kleermaker is still in the dark. "I have heard messages about reducing the prize pool even more, but nothing has been said to me by the board."
"If it has indeed been lowered even more, you know that the BDO is gradually ending its story", the 28-year-old Dutchman continues. "The money just seems to be used up and bills cannot be paid."
President
Players cannot ask for confirmation. BDO chairman Des Jacklin hardly shows up. "I don't think he dares to face us, because we hardly see him in the players' room either. If you are chairman of the BDO and you organize the World Cup then you can expect that you would see him, but not so."
The chairman's credit, who took up his duties in August 2018, is therefore exhausted. "He has no support from me and many with me. It seems to me to be an untenable situation," says Kleermaker firmly.
Heater
Despite the problems, Kleermaker remains focused on winning his matches at the World Cup. "Of course it is not really a World Cup as you imagine it, but nonetheless I just want to win my matches, because I am not here for nothing!"
Kleermaker also sees the World Cup as a good exercise.
"Yes, in the end this is the warm-up for Q-school. Fetching a tour card is perhaps even more important this year than in recent years in view of developments at BDO."