There's a legal brouhaha going on right now in Europe that has implications for the future of international soccer. The Belgian team Charleroi is suing FIFA for compensation after one of their players picked up an eight month injury while on international duty. Charleroi are being backed by the G-14, the informal, yet odious, grouping of the richest fourteen European teams.
Phil Cornwall is dead right when he says this is another example of the G-14's greed, but I don't see how, legally speaking, FIFA could be held monetarily responsible, since they weren't the group that actually called up the player. (They aren't suing the Moroccan federation because the G-14 think this would be useless as a precedent, since many national federations wouldn't be able to afford compensation.)
It's a time for saner heads to prevail. Which makes it a great shame that the issue is being decided by EU courts....
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