Introduction

Duval, Antoine; Rompuy, Ben Van

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“…This decision gave professional footballers more agency and power to choose their next employer, instead of leaving this to the football clubs. In addition, this decision relaxed regulations around the presence of foreign footballers in national competitions (Duval and van Rompuy, 2016). 2.…”

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The diversification of national football teams: Using the idea of migration corridors to explore the underlying structures of nationality changes amongst foreign-born players at the football World Cup

Campenhout

Sterkenburg

2019

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The inclusion of foreign-born sportspeople in national sports teams has become increasingly common. At the same time, the assumed increase in diversity within national football teams has turned into a major subject of (inter)national controversy and debate. This applies, in particular, to the football World Cup, as the assumed increase in foreign-born players in national football teams detracts from the (homogeneous) nation-state basis of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) international football competitions. However, the actual dynamics and complexities of the presence of foreign-born players in national football teams within this context have remained under-researched. In this paper, we use the idea of ‘migration corridors’ to examine the underlying structures that contribute to the diversification of national football teams, in particular during the World Cup. We do so from both an immigration and emigration perspective. By connecting our foreign-born player data to three types of migration corridors, we discuss the bidirectionality of player movements and nationality choices. Our outcomes indicate that the selection of foreign-born footballers within national football teams in the World Cup can mainly be considered as an echo and/or reversal of preceding migration flows between pairs of countries, indicating that historically embedded migration corridors sustain or are rediscovered in this process.

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The diversification of national football teams: Using the idea of migration corridors to explore the underlying structures of nationality changes amongst foreign-born players at the football World Cup

Campenhout

Sterkenburg

2019

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…61 An informal agreement between football governing bodies and the European Commission aimed at closing the investigation of the European Commission on potential incompatibility of the RSTP, edition 1997, with the EU competition law, as well as at providing FIFA with protection against any further challenges of the transfer system based on the EU law arguments. 62 The football transfer framework agreed upon in 2001 is based on several pillars which were intended to form new transfer regulations in line with the EU law, with due regard for specific characteristics of a sport and the autonomy of sporting organizations. 63 Among the principles of the new transfer framework, such as fairness and openness of the competition system in football, stability of the contractual relationship between the player and the club, registration periods and in-depth monitoring of transfer transactions, FGB and the European Commission placed creation of a revenues distribution system in order to award an effort made by training clubs to train young footballers.…”

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Solidarity compensation framework in football revisited

Laskowski

2018

Int Sports Law J

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The present article discusses key problems related to suitability of the existing solidarity compensation system for the current transfer market in football. It briefly explains the origin, current wording and applicability of the FIFA solidarity framework, adopted in 2001 and consisting of 'solidarity contribution' and 'training compensation' systems, as well as its consistency with the EU law. Article demonstrates key deficiencies of the FIFA solidarity framework, resulting in the competitive imbalance between football clubs participating in organized football and lack of the efficient, systemic encouragement for training and development of youth players by football clubs. Furthermore, this article includes a review of de lege ferenda proposals aimed to eliminate major flaws of the current framework, enhance solidarity and competitive balance between football clubs as well as to reduce disproportionalities in respect to financial gratification for training clubs of professional football players.

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The corridor of uncertainty: part two, why attempts to regulate the financial aspects of football are met with legal challenges

Flanagan¹

2018

Int Sports Law J

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Introduction

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The diversification of national football teams: Using the idea of migration corridors to explore the underlying structures of nationality changes amongst foreign-born players at the football World Cup

The diversification of national football teams: Using the idea of migration corridors to explore the underlying structures of nationality changes amongst foreign-born players at the football World Cup

Solidarity compensation framework in football revisited

The corridor of uncertainty: part two, why attempts to regulate the financial aspects of football are met with legal challenges

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