FIFA: First meeting of the working group on third-party ownership of players on 02/09/2014

The first meeting of the working group on third-party ownership of players will be held at the FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) headquarters in Zurich (Switzerland) on 02/09/2014.

Frédéric Thiriez, the president of the LFP (French Professional Football League), Javier Tebas, the president of the Spanish LFP, representatives of FIFPro (International Federation of Professional Footballers), confederations, FIFA member federations and several English, Portuguese and Brazilian clubs will attend the meeting.

The working group, which operates under FIFA's Players' Status Committee, was created during FIFA's 64^th Congress in Sao Paulo (Brazil) on 11/06/2014. Its aim is to analyse "all possible regulatory options and making preliminary suggestions to the FIFA Executive Committee next September for the latter to decide on the preferred and most adequate future approach so that the working group may subsequently further elaborate on the technical details," indicated the international federation.

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