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The 2001 informal agreement on the international transfer system

The control structures of football have traditionally positioned players at the bottom of the football pyramid (Tomlinson 1983: 173). Clubs must register their players with their respective national FA or league to participate in national championships. They have to follow similar procedures with UE...

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Main Author: Borja Garcia-Garcia
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Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/9167
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description The control structures of football have traditionally positioned players at the bottom of the football pyramid (Tomlinson 1983: 173). Clubs must register their players with their respective national FA or league to participate in national championships. They have to follow similar procedures with UEFA if they participate in European competitions. These governing bodies regulate and decide which players can be registered to play in the competitions they organise, thus having a certain amount of power over the players that any given club can hire. Football governing bodies have traditionally adopted two sets of norms to regulate the employment and registration of footballers: transfer systems and nationality quotas (Lanfranchi and Taylor 2001: 218). From the players’ point of view, the most contentious issue of a transfer system is any rule that can be used to prevent a player from moving from one club to another at the end of the contract, for instance if agreement cannot be reached between the buying and selling club about an appropriate ‘transfer fee’. The football transfer system used to favour clubs rather than players, for it allowed clubs to retain a player at the end of the contract when there was no agreement over compensation for a transfer. [...continues]
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spelling rr-article-96221272011-01-01T00:00:00Z The 2001 informal agreement on the international transfer system Borja Garcia-Garcia (1256169) Other health sciences not elsewhere classified untagged Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified The control structures of football have traditionally positioned players at the bottom of the football pyramid (Tomlinson 1983: 173). Clubs must register their players with their respective national FA or league to participate in national championships. They have to follow similar procedures with UEFA if they participate in European competitions. These governing bodies regulate and decide which players can be registered to play in the competitions they organise, thus having a certain amount of power over the players that any given club can hire. Football governing bodies have traditionally adopted two sets of norms to regulate the employment and registration of footballers: transfer systems and nationality quotas (Lanfranchi and Taylor 2001: 218). From the players’ point of view, the most contentious issue of a transfer system is any rule that can be used to prevent a player from moving from one club to another at the end of the contract, for instance if agreement cannot be reached between the buying and selling club about an appropriate ‘transfer fee’. The football transfer system used to favour clubs rather than players, for it allowed clubs to retain a player at the end of the contract when there was no agreement over compensation for a transfer. [...continues] 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/9167 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/The_2001_informal_agreement_on_the_international_transfer_system/9622127 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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The 2001 informal agreement on the international transfer system
title The 2001 informal agreement on the international transfer system
title_full The 2001 informal agreement on the international transfer system
title_fullStr The 2001 informal agreement on the international transfer system
title_full_unstemmed The 2001 informal agreement on the international transfer system
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