Foot(bel)Gate and the (lack of) Legal Environment around the Intermediaries

Background

1 April 2015 is an important date in the “little football” world.

FIFA decided to change its FIFA Players’ Agents Regulations that existed since... 2001.

It is interesting to note that if FIFA modifies the great majority of its regulations every year, those concerning agents was adapted only once (in 2008).

Many specialists explain that this turnaround of FIFA was the first step leading to total deregulation… but it is more realistic to say that it looked like the last step…

In this article, we will examine how agents[1] (so-called intermediaries since the new regulations settled in 2015[2]) became so powerful in the football world and what kind of regulations are governing their activities (with a small view on Belgian Law, where the Foot(bel)Gate exploded) and which...

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