By Paul Nicholson
May 17 – The 2nd Rex Sport/Insideworldfootball Forum, Sports Law at the Crossroads, completed two days of presentation and debate on a range of issues surrounding player contracts and transfers, as well as taking a hard and critical look at where, and whether, esports should be regulated and governed similarly to traditional sport.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 17 – FIFA is continuing to closely monitor the loan system to make sure that clubs stop hoarding players and beef up their squads for the right reasons.
May 15 – When he was in charge of UEFA, Michel Platini famously described match-fixing as the cancer of football.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 14 – To what extent does doping infiltrate esports, a craze that has enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years with prize pools of several million dollars and FIFA even organising their own eWorld Cup?
By Andrew Warshaw in Madrid
May 10 – Recently introduced legal moves designed to improve the financial relationship between clubs and players will act as important milestone in contractual stability, according to one of FIFA’s top legal experts.
April 30 – Ephraim Barak, Rex Sport Academic Director and founder and managing partner of EB SportLaw, says the new FIFA Rules on the Status and Transfer of Player are “only the beginning of a very influential change”.
April 24 – The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has committed to the Sports law at the Crossroads conference, May 10-11 in Madrid, as a supporting sponsor.
April 11 – The Early Bird discount registration price for the Sports Law at the Crossroads conference has just 24 hours left to run.
April 5 – More than 25 speakers from across the sports law spectrum have been announced for the Sports Law at the Crossroads conference in Madrid, May 10-11.
April 3 – More speakers have been announced for the Sports Law at the Crossroads conference in Madrid, May 10-11. Jose Luis Andrade, the European Club Association’s (ECA) General Council, Despina Mavromati (pictured), Attorney and Sports Arbitration specialist, Sportlegis, and Bichara Abidao Neto, founding partner at Bichara e Motta Advogados.
March 29 – Luis Rubiales, President of the Spanish federation (RFEF), will give the opening address at Sports Law at the Crossroads conference in Madrid, May 10-11.
March 28 – FIFA’s chief legal officer Emilio Garcia Silvero and former CAS Deputy General Secretary William Sternheimer have joined the speaker line-up for the Sports Law at the Crossroads conference in Madrid, May 10-11.
Following the success of the first annual sport forum organised by RexSport in collaboration with IWF, we are happy to announce that the 2nd. Annual RexSport – IWF forum will take place on 8 & 9 March, 2019 in Madrid.