Football Legal # 1 - June 2014 Special Report: Third Party Ownership (TPO)
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The international journal dedicated to football law # 7 – June 2017 Football Legal # 1 - June 2014 Special Report: Third Party Ownership (TPO) Football Legal # 2 - December 2014 Special Report: Financial Controls of Football Clubs Football Legal # 3 - June 2015 Special Report: The new Regulations on Working with Intermediaries Football Legal # 4 - December 2015 Special Report: International Football Justice Football Legal # 5 - June 2016 Special Report: TPO/TPI: an update Football Legal # 6 - November 2016 Special Report: Broadcasting & Media Rights in Football Leagues Football Legal # 7 - June 2017 Special Report: Minors in Football www.football-legal.com Subscriptions: [email protected] © droitdusport.com 2017 - All rights reserved worldwide ISSN: 2497-1219 EDITORIAL BOARD Saleh ALOBEIDLI Eugene KRECHETOV Lawyer, Saleh Alobeidli Advocates Lawyer , Ekspots Law / Executive Director at FC Dynamo Moscow Dubai - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Moscow - RUSSIA Nasr El Din AZZAM Luc MISSON Lawyer, SPORT MAKERS Lawyer, MISSON Bureau d’avocats Cairo - EGYPT Liège - BELGIUM Efraim BARAK Patricia MOYERSOEN Lawyer, D. MIRKIN & Co. Lawyer, Cabinet Moyersoen Tel-Aviv - ISRAEL Paris - FRANCE Michel BERNASCONI João NOGUEIRA DA ROCHA Lawyer, BÂR & KARRER AG Lawyer, MRGL Advogados Zurich - SWITZERLAND Lisbon - PORTUGAL Ricardo DE BUEN RODRÍGUEZ Emin OZKURT Lawyer, DE BUEN RODRIGUEZ ABOGADOS Lawyer, OZKURT Law Office Mexico City - MEXICO Istanbul - TURKEY David CASSERLY Peter PALEOLOGOS Barrister Player Agent & Lawyer, LIBERO Consulting Dublin - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Melbourne - AUSTRALIA Daniel CRAVO Benoit PASQUIER Lawyer, CRAVO PASTL e BALBUENA General Counsel & Director of Legal Affairs of the AFC Porto Alegre - BRAZIL Kuala Lumpur - MALAYSIA Juan de Dios CRESPO PÉREZ Joachim RAIN Lawyer, RUIZ-HUERTA & CRESPO Lawyer, SCHICKHARDT Rechtsänwalte Valencia - SPAIN Ludwigsburg - GERMANY Mario GALLAVOTTI Ariel RECK Lawyer, GALLAVOTTI BERNARDINI & Partners Lawyer, RECK SPORTS LAW Rome - ITALY Buenos Aires - ARGENTINA Horacio GONZÁLEZ MULLIN Lina SOULOUKOU Lawyer, GONZALEZ MULIN, KASPRZYK & Asociados Lawyer, SOULOUKOU & Partners Law Firm Montevideo - URUGUAY Athens - GREECE Georgi GRADEV Josep F. VANDELLOS ALAMILLA Sport Counsel, SILA Law Company Lawyer, SPORTS LAW PARTNERS Sofia - BULGARIA Bucharest - ROMANIA / Valencia - SPAIN Mark HOVELL Takuya YAMAZAKI Lawyer, MILLS & REEVE LLP Lawyer, Field-R Law Offices Manchester - ENGLAND Tokyo - JAPAN Dennis KOOLAARD Julien ZYLBERSTEIN Lawyer, De Kempenaer Advocaten Senior Legal Counsel at UEFA Arnhem - THE NETHERLANDS Nyon - SWITZERLAND Andrey KHARITONCHUK Head of FC Shakhtar Legal Department Kiev - UKRAINE Editions droitdusport.com Publishing Director: Alexandre DURAND 21 bis, rue du Professeur Calmette Chief Editor: Ronan DAVID Photo credits: AFP 33150 CENON - FRANCE Designer: Alexia MOUSQUES Printed by: Copymédia EDITORIAL The evolution of modern professional football has transformed the issue of minors into a major one. While this issue is very topical, it is also extremely complex. It is topical as evidenced by the recent cases involving Barca, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid as well as the other cases in progress. It is complex as there are two opposing philosophies regarding the FIFA ban on the transfer of minors. The ban can be perceived as an attack on the freedom of movement of persons and a loss of opportunity for many young people (and their families), for whom football is a way out of monetary instability and towards a better future. However, the ban can also be seen as the only way to protect minors from unscrupulous practices dictated by fnancial greed. The sporting and commercial stakes are major. For these reasons, Football Legal devotes a Special Report to the topic of Minors in Football with the aim to give the opportunity to every football stakeholder to share their outlook. This overview is striking and of great interest to those interested in the matter. Ronan DAVID Alexandre DURAND Chief Editor Publishing DIrector Football Legal CONTENTS # 7 PERSPECTIVES 11 FIFA RSTP & CAS Jurisprudence 57 Article 19 and Article 19bis FIFA RSTP 13 Interview with Bernard CAÏAZZO By Stephen SAMPSON, Emma MASON 17 Interview with Theo VAN SEGGELEN 86 CAS 2015/A/4312 John Kenneth Hilton v. FIFA, award of 9 August 2016 19 Interview with Mark BOETEKEES By Luca SMACCHIA 21 Marcos ROJO case: the Swiss Federal Tribunal confirms 89 FIFA, CAS and Minors: the Return of Laudable the CAS award and backs up the position of Doyen Purposes and the Disproportionate Tools By Jean-Michel MARMAYOU By Agustín AMOROS MARTÍNEZ, Enric RIPOLL 25 Why the provisions of Article 12bis implemented at The LOKILO case national level did not improve the overdue payables situation in Ukrainian football 97 Securing Investments in Youth Training: By Yuliya MOROZOVA the LOKILO case By Arnaut KINT, Sébastien LEDURE, Wouter JANSSENS 28 Feedback from the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber and the Court of Arbitration for Sport 101 Theo VAN SEGGELEN: “It’s nothing less than a scandal” By Georgi GRADEV 102 Renaud DUCHENE: “I am personnaly in favour of an 33 Sporting succession of Football Clubs under the FIFA adaption of the regulations” and CAS jurisprudence By Josep F. VANDELLOS ALAMILLA Ongoing Legal Challenge 38 Should the admissibility criteria and disciplinary 106 FIFA’s transfer ban for minor football players is illegal sanction always be proportional? By Dr. Roberto DALLAFIOR, Dr. Martin RAUBER By Maciej BAŁAZIŃSKI National Frameworks 113 England SPECIAL REPORT - MINORS IN FOOTBALL 41 The Treatment of Minors in English Football: An Analysis By Lloyd THOMAS Introduction 125 The potential impact of Brexit on the ability of 44 A quantitative assessment of the international Premier League clubs to utilise Article 19’s “EU/EEA mobility of minors in European football exception” to recruit talented U18s By Raffaele POLI, Roger BESSON, Loïc RAVENEL By Carol COUSE, Jake COHEN 47 How and when FIFA addressed the existing social 131 France and cultural issues related to the protection of Minors in French Football minors By Matthieu BARRANDAS By Stefano LA PORTA 136 Germany FIFA RSTP - Provisions on the Protection of Minors The Legal Framework for Minors in German Football By Joachim RAIN 49 FIFA’s Provisions on the Protection of Minors - Background and their Application 139 Italy By Gaudenz KOPRIO, Kimberly MORRIS, Omar ONGARO Minors in Football: Italian framework By Stefano LA PORTA 6 Football Legal 143 the Netherlands WORLD IN REVIEW - INTERNATIONAL NEWS 187 Minors in the Netherlands By Dennis KOOLAARD, Lennart VAN DE PEPPEL European Union (EU) 147 Mark BOETEKEES: “It should be possible to better protect the minor players as well as the youth academies” 188 The outcome of the Lassana DIARRA case By Luc MISSON, Géraldine DUJARDIN 149 Portugal European Minor Transfers from outside EU 192 Philippe PIAT: “We can no longer forbid a player who By João NOGUEIRA DA ROCHA has been fired to immediately join a new club” 152 South America 193 The European Parliament adopts the report on “an Minors in Football - South America integrated approach to sport specificity” By Daniel CRAVO SOUZA, Paula DE CASTRO MOREIRA By Football Legal, Staff writer SORDI 194 The European Commission investigates 157 Brazil employment contracts in French football Legal Challenges involving the Training of Youth By Football Legal, Staff writer Players in Brazil: A Brief Comparative Analysis of the National Legislation and FIFA RSTP Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) By Marcos MOTTA, Gabriel ARAÚJO 195 FIFA's TPO ban: an in-depth analysis of the CAS 160 North America award of 9 March 2017 The Transfer and Registration of Minors in North By Patricia MOYERSOEN, America: Immigration, the United States and with Dimitra RONTOGIANNI & Juan CRESPO RUIZ-HUERTA Relations with Mexico and Canada By Paolo TORCHETTI 201 The SKËNDERBEU case - A step forward to combat match-fixing? 164 USA By Marc CAVALIERO Minors in Football in the U.S. By Paul J. GREENE, Matthew D. KAISER 208 CAS maintains the decision of FRF’s Licensing Committees on the ASA 2013 Targu MURES case 168 The current state of the U.S. when it comes to FIFA’s By Adrian STANGACIU training compensation and solidarity mechanism fees 210 The validity of a waiver of claims resulting from By Paul J. GREENE, Matthew D. KAISER mandatory provisions of Swiss Law upon the termination of a playing contract 172 China By Georgi GRADEV Minors in the People’s Republic of China By David WU 212 The effects of dual representation by a player’s agent 175 India By Ariel RECK Minors’ contracts in Indian football By Roshan GOPALAKRISHNA, Anirban SAIKIA 213 The amount of compensation for the early termination of an employment contract that is 179 Russia voluntarily paid by the club to the player despite an Compensation for training of talents: Russian appeal pending at CAS, shall be reimbursed in the Perspective overpaid part together with the interest By Mikhail PROKOPETS, Darina NIKITINA By Eugene KRECHETOV, Elena KATKOVA 183 Romania 216 FIFA has no power to act ex officio to condemn a Regulatory threats to minor football players in person not named as a party Romania By Georgi GRADEV By Josep F. VANDELLOS ALAMILLA Football Legal 7 Football Legal CONTENTS # 7 218 Implementation of the Solidarity Mechanism provided 230 FIFA Ethics Committee bans several football officials in the FIFA Regulations and Intention of the Parties By Football Legal, Staff writer By Jorge IBARROLA 230 FIFA has completed its internal investigation and 223 The Panel’s power to order