Second Bosman-ruling? Football agent suing UEFA rule on ‘ locally trained players”

The court of commerce of Brussels on Tuesday the final pieces received in the file on a complaint against the rule of the European football association UEFA on “locally trained players”. Football agent Daniel Striani calls the regulations “illegal”. The debates are concluded, the court speaks about a few weeks.

According to the UEFA rules, which also by the Belgian football association belgian football association to be applied to the clubs in their core have a minimum number of players that are locally trained. Concretely, this means that 8 out of 25 players at a club in Belgium in Belgium, as well trained. Six of those locally trained players should also be on the documentation match sheet. But football agent Daniel Striani calls the scheme, however, “illegal”.

His lawyers, Jean-Louis Dupont and Martin Hissel, argue that the rules violate the right to freedom of movement for workers and against free competition.

Second Bosman-ruling?

“If the case is admissible, then the chances are that the case to Europe will be sequenced, to the Court of Justice in Luxembourg. The chance is real that they are right. And then with a second Bosman-ruling”, explained lawyer Olivier Malisse earlier on Sporza.