Program & Speakers
8:30: Reception of the delegates
9:00: Opening words
9:15: Introduction: Definition, Protection and Mobility of "Minors"
→ Who does (should) finance?
→ What is (should be) financed?
→ What are (should be) the expected financial results?
10:30: Coffee break
Round table on legal issues:
→ What kind of contractual relationship between clubs and academies?
→ Are children sufficiently protected (example of the child abuse scandal within UK football)?
→ Football Education and Scholastic Education: what are the minimum standards?
12:15: Lunch
14:00:
SESSION 2: Minors Working as Football Players
Moderator
→ How to contract with minors?
→ Who is (should be) paid as a result of the work of minors?
Round table on legal issues:
→ Different types of professional players' contracts (examples of National Regulations)
→ Obligation to sign the first professional contract with the club which provided the training
→ Role of intermediaries and the parents. Signature of the contract: Is the player bound by the contract signed by his parents?
15:45: Coffee break
→ Minors playing with their national teams
→ Case of bi-national players representing one country at youth international level and another at senior international level: FIFA Regulations and legal challenges
→ Specific issue of Mexican players born in the USA
17:30: Conclusion
19:30: Cocktail and Gala dinner for AIAF members and guest speakers
8:30: Reception of the delegates
9:00: Opening words
→ Transfering Minors: FIFA Regulations & their enforcement
→ Principle of prohibition of tranfers/loans of minors (art. 19.1)
→ Written exceptions (art. 19.2)
→ The so-called "five-year rule" (art. 19.3 & 19.4); Unofficial exceptions?
→ How to monitor international transfers of minors?
→ The role of FIFA TMS
→ FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid cases
→ How do third parties promote careers of minors? Intermediaries? TPO/TPI?
11:00: Coffee break
Round table on legal issues
12:45: Lunch
14:00
→ And now, what's next?
→ Responsabilities of football stakeholders
→ Good practices
→ AIAF's proposals for a better system / AIAF's Recommendations
15:00 : AIAF General Assembly
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