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International Professional Football Law: Webster, Matuzalem and De Sanctis—The CAS Transfer ‘Buy-Out’ Rulings

2012; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-90-6704-852-1_8

2215-003X

Robert C.R. Siekmann,

Sports, Gender, and Society

The subject of international professional football law consists of a broad range of (in particular, European) subtopics such as nationality issues, Social Dialogue in the European professional football sector, the collective selling of TV rights from an EU competition law perspective, legal aspects of combating transnational football hooliganism in Europe, the matter of sports betting-related sporting fraud, etc. This chapter focuses on a crucial aspect of the issue of players' contracts and transfer issues (the other topic of the diptych being dealt with in Bosman, which will be treated in this chapter from a global (FIFA and DRC/CAS) perspective. The 'hard core' of professional football law may be situated in the player/club relationship (contracts/transfers) to which the players' agent issue is attached. The other central relationship in professional football is that of clubs and association/league (f.e. re the TV rights collective selling issue). The sequence of paragraphs in this chapter is as follows: (1) a short introduction to the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS); (2) The FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players ('contractual stability'); (3) 'valid contract (compensation) cases': (a) Webster case; (b) Matuzalem Case; and (c) De Sanctis.