source: uefa.com
date: 9 March 2009
editing: fcbtransfers.blogspot.com
Protection of minors was one of the focal points of the latest meeting of the Professional Football Strategy Council in Nyon on Monday. All four groups present at the meeting (associations, clubs, leagues and players) agreed on the principle that there should be no international transfers of minors (players aged under 18) either into Europe or within Europe.
A resolution for the protection of young players and encouragement of youth development was ratified by all four representatives' groups. The statement reads: "With regard to the protection of young players and encouragement of youth development, the Professional Football Strategy Council agrees that no international transfers (or first registration of non-nationals) of players under 18 into Europe or within Europe should be permitted."
"The question of minors is above all a moral and ethical issue. We have a duty to take concrete steps to protect young players and training clubs. I am delighted that the key stakeholders of the European football family have a common view on this major subject and I welcome the signature of this important resolution," said UEFA President Michel Platini.
The Professional Football Strategy Council is composed of elected representatives of the associations, clubs, leagues and players, and advises the UEFA Executive Committee on issues of strategic importance for European football. Barcelona president Joan Laporta took part in the meeting as representative of the clubs and signed the resolution.
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If i read the article properly , player like Messi cannot come to barca at age of 9 or 11??
PS correct me if i am wrong...
Uhm, officially yes. But think for a second about this. How do players like messi join barcelona? Their parents enroll them into the barca academy right? So suppose barca really want a player, all they have to do is offer the players parents (who most times are poorer people from countries where opportunity is hard to come by) jobs at the club (for example a scout or a gardener at the club or a secretary) and seeing that we cannot allow a family to be seperated and we must have a foreign (scout, secretary, gardener) we would pay for the whole family to come across. Now that the family is in barcelona we notice that they just happen to have a son that we suggest can be enrolled in our academy if he likes football (wink wink). What will uefa do? Ban barcelona from hiring staff? Ban players from enrolling in the barca academy?
you gotta be in politics or should be lawyer or can become a good one
LOL. no i'm not a politician or a lawyer
Or a Mafia guy LOL
Laws are a rope, either you jump over or crawl under.
Yet it will limit the crazy flow of youth players from one side to another. barca4life EVIL plan will work only if the teams became more selective in hunting the talents rather than taking big gambles getting them in numbers and hoping one or two of them will click.
Because if barcelona hired too many staff and it happened that by coincidence all the staff hired injected their children in Barcelona Academy, investigations will take place.
Beside the labor laws in the country may put limitations as well.
I hope this will encourage big teams to invest more in youth academies and affiliation clubs in poor countries to raise the talents in their own surrounding and be involved in the overall growth of the respective communities.
I wasnt talking on a large scale ramzi lol. We certainly dont need 150 gardeners/scouts from soth amricao/latin america/africa. LOL. I'm just talking about the special talents that may be spotted that we must have. For example another messi like player from argentina or maybe a player from cameroon that etoo views highly. Added to which, even if there was an investigation what would they do? What law has been broken by us hiring staff outside of europe? We could fight it all the way. UEFA will have to put a law stating that no player from outside of spain can be registered in our youth academy which would be viewed as discrimination by the EU and would never be allowed since the EU allows foreign workers and their children to come into europe in the first place.
What it will prevent for sure however is arsenal and other english clubs swooping in and taking players from around europe for free. I do have a question though ramzi. What happens if an italian players parents get a legitimate job (outside of football) in england. The player is 15 years old, and has already started off with roma. The parents demand that the player move to london with them. Wanting to play football the player now goes to arsenal. Will uefa be able to prevent that?
I guess it's good. I think that if a player want's to move to a club and his current club isn't interested in him (Messi) he would be allowed to move since there really are no transfer involved then.
this is good news. I dont care how badley a 9 yearold wants to play for barcelona.. its unethical !!! People gripe all the time saying things like well.. if the kid wants to whats the problem... well you know what else... 9 year olds also want to eat candy and play video games all day and stay up late.. would you let them do that too ?
This legislation wont solve the problem.. because as ramzi and others said.. its a rope not an impenetrable force field..
Hopefully it acts as a deterrent and rewards clubs for investing within their communities more
Marc what is the difference between making your 9 year old study science and mathematics because he wants to be a doctor and allowing him to play football to be a footballer? Everything in life requires preperation and hard work from early in life. Nobody is saying that children should be forced to play football if they do not want to but playing football in the barcelona academy is the same to me as getting a good education in a school. Its all part of attempting to follow your dream and give yourself a base for later life.
Late respond but I guess it is needed, specially taking in consideration the various ages of people who read this blog.
barca4life: The difference is HUGE. But in this era of unclear standards, its not strange to mix things.
When a 9 years old boy study Math and science, it ends up opening numerous options for him to decide the future HE WANT when he reach the cross roads of his life at the age of 18(the age when u can trust his decisions more), he CAN chose from thousands options what suits him most.
When a 9 years old boy dump school or lose focus on it, and when he is taken out of his normal growth course. And instead of raising with the other boys, he lives exclusively in the field green bubble, then football will be the make or break for him in his life. Based on that, read what follows:
While rarely a guy who don't earn enough education succeed to leave a mark in life or achieve anything for his future, I can say that 90 % of guys who show talent in football at early ages turn to become a flop later on. So what will a guy who become 18 years old do if football was the only thing he is counting on and then he flop (without talking about injury threat)?
I wonder what will a 9 years old guy do after 9 years from now in this world of rapid development if he is not attached by any means to the real world.
The deference between the two cases is exactly the same as the difference between offering the child a candy or offering him an apple.
here's my response from goal.com's post on this subject...too lazy to think of something new...
"ummm...i think the pressure should be put by barca on to whatever spanish body that creates & enforces laws on minor's ability to contract, so that they'd be on par w/england's, rather than on Platini & UEFA to intervene. i personally think if a player aged 17 or under does not have the opportunity for very many minutes on the pitch @ a club they should at least be able to go out on loan. if this were the case barcelona would still have cesc, merida, + whoever & they'd also be playing @ their respective current levels."
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