“How does using sports to get out of poverty work when you have to be rich to play at all?”. Ritwik Deswal highlights the disparity between a rich and poor child's access to sport.
Blog Posts
EA Sports vs Image Rights In Brazil: Why can’t I play with Brazil on FIFA 2020?
Gabriel Eguinoa explains why Brazilian clubs only have generic players on their squads in the past six editions of FIFA, frustrating thousands of Brazilian gamers.
FIFA’s Clearing House: Monitoring Training Compensation and Solidarity Contribution Payments
In 2018 $350m should have been paid in "Solidarity Payments" to clubs that develop young talent, but only $68m got through. Rafael Martins investigates what steps FIFA are taking to make sure the clubs that train young talent get their fair share of their future value.
The Transfer Matching System
The international football transfer market is a multi-billion-dollar industry with around 12,000 cross-border transfers of professional male players taking place each year, so why does it occasionally go so spectacularly wrong?
Greek Football Clubs: A Game of Hide and Seek
Gone today, here tomorrow? Greek football clubs are under financial pressure and Antonis Vogaitzakis looks at the measures that they resort to, and how they align with FIFA's regulatory framework.
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