FRANKFURT 11 October 2000 (dpa) - A ruling in the tax evasion trial against SV Hamburg and Ghanian striker Anthony Yeboah will come in late November at the earliest, German court officials said Wednesday.

The verdict had been expected at the court's next meeting on Monday, but more evidence still needs to be presented.

The court called for a month-long break in the trial after Monday's session as one of the lay assessors will be leaving next Wednesday for holidays. The trial will then continue on November 14.

"We wouldn't have had the opportunity to handle all the evidence and hear the closing statements," court chairman Klaus Wiens said.

Yeboah, two former Eintracht Frankfurt club officials and the player's former adviser are accused of evading or helping to evade tax payments of 2.3 million marks (1.02 million dollars) in 1993.

The court has yet to decide if it will call Bayern Munich vice president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Borussia Dortmund manager Michael Meier to question them about how contractual and wage negotiationsare handled in practice in the German football Bundesliga.

On Wednesday, the 13th day of hearings in the trial which began on August 3, the court heard testimony from Yeboah's uncle.

Attah Kyei was the head of the AYA-Management company in Ghana, to which 1.5 million marks was allegedly transferred in 1993. Kyei said Wednesday that he could not remember a deposit of that amount into the account.

The money in question was part of the 2.3 million marks Yeboah earned as salary that year from Eintracht Frankfurt.

Kyei said Wednesday that AYA was founded in 1993 to sell sports merchandise in Ghana, while Yeboah told financial officials inearlier questioning that the company exists since 1990.