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Long-standing precedent from FIFA’s Dispute Resolution Chamber entitles clubs to training compensation for the period they take a player on loan. But the right to compensation does not arise until the parent club transfers the player to a club in another association. In other words, the time with the parent club and the time on …
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Article 19 of FIFA’s Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players remains a tough wall to clear. Generally, the rule bars clubs from signing foreign players under age 18, except in three limited circumstances.[1] The most controversial of these is exception (a), which allows the transfer if the player’s parent moved to the new …
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Last month, the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected Miami FC and Kingston Stockade’s claim against FIFA, the US Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer for violation of FIFA Article 9, which requires promotion based “principally” on sporting merit. In short, the Panel concluded Article 9 only addressed clubs’ efforts to circumvent formal systems of …
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NOTE: This article has been modified from an earlier version, published in August 2016. In a March 29, 2017 order, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas dismissed the featured lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds. Nonetheless, the ruling does not change the article’s analysis of defendant class certification. In July 2016, the …
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