Some weeks ago, we received in the office a critical disciplinary case. A club was banned from registering players due to a sanction imposed by FIFA for breach of a payment agreement entered a few years ago. This time, as usual in our profession, we had to be on the dark side of the force and represent the defaulted debtor.

The case was critical due to several factors working against us. First, the club would resume competition in ten days; that is, we had less than two weeks to propose an agreement, close it and lift the ban; if we did not succeed, the club would not have players to compete in this new season and would be punished with the loss of the affiliation of the national federation, losing all competition rights for at least five years, that is, its disappearance. However, the task became even more titanic as we had to deal with the fair distrust of the creditor since we were dealing with a high debt, more than five years old, several previous payment defaults,...

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