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[URL]http://skysports.planetfootball.com/article.asp?id=211932&cpid=21[/URL]
The Italian Olympic Committee has unanimously voted to impose a rule stating that sports teams in Italian leagues must be comprised of at least 50% home-grown talent.
In a move that could make a major impact on football, the Olympic Committee [CONI] decided that sports must be protected from an influx of foreigners.
CONI president Gianni Petrucci confirmed that the ruling, which comes after new European Union rules on sports, would be imposed by the governing body.
Football and basketball are both the sports most affected by the changes - but it is has been widely suggested that the move will aid the development of youth.
Without the fall-back of cheap foreign imports, clubs could be forced to become more introverted and bring through players from their ranks, such as young Parma star Alberto Gilardino.
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Hhahahahahhahahahaha yeah right. It will never happen, they will impose the rule, it will last 1 season. The italian football associaction will get sued the crap out of by some Bosman wannabe, for impinging his human rights to work in any country in the EU of their choosing and italy will look like muppets as the ruling comes crashing down. Even if they did impose it and it worked theyed have a great national team and a poor domestic league in the long run. The poor state of the domestic league will make it less attractive to foreigners and it will just end up like the portuguese or french leagues (i know the irony is that they have done very well this season, but this is just one year and traditionally the big boys dominate). As the league gets weaker it gets less financially attractive and it will lose ground on spanish and english leagues. Stupid
[URL]http://skysports.planetfootball.com/article.asp?id=211932&cpid=21[/URL]
The Italian Olympic Committee has unanimously voted to impose a rule stating that sports teams in Italian leagues must be comprised of at least 50% home-grown talent.
In a move that could make a major impact on football, the Olympic Committee [CONI] decided that sports must be protected from an influx of foreigners.
CONI president Gianni Petrucci confirmed that the ruling, which comes after new European Union rules on sports, would be imposed by the governing body.
Football and basketball are both the sports most affected by the changes - but it is has been widely suggested that the move will aid the development of youth.
Without the fall-back of cheap foreign imports, clubs could be forced to become more introverted and bring through players from their ranks, such as young Parma star Alberto Gilardino.
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Hhahahahahhahahahaha yeah right. It will never happen, they will impose the rule, it will last 1 season. The italian football associaction will get sued the crap out of by some Bosman wannabe, for impinging his human rights to work in any country in the EU of their choosing and italy will look like muppets as the ruling comes crashing down. Even if they did impose it and it worked theyed have a great national team and a poor domestic league in the long run. The poor state of the domestic league will make it less attractive to foreigners and it will just end up like the portuguese or french leagues (i know the irony is that they have done very well this season, but this is just one year and traditionally the big boys dominate). As the league gets weaker it gets less financially attractive and it will lose ground on spanish and english leagues. Stupid
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They can introduce it and within 2 seconds the 'human rights' lawyers will be all over it like flies to cow dung. (quite an apt analogy there i think :-D)
Don or†ega wrote:
> Italian clubs can only sign 1 non-eu player a season (according to CM
> anyway!)
>
> Is that really legal?
Not in my version. The Italian clubs can sign and play anyone from bloody anywhere!
It's great!
> Italian clubs can only sign 1 non-eu player a season (according to CM
> anyway!)
>
> Is that really legal?
Not in my version. The Italian clubs can sign and play anyone from bloody anywhere!
It's great!
From football365. an interesting new take. Sorry for not putting a link but its better if i put the article as this is actually pretty relevant and worth putting on:
UEFA have launched proposals designed to limit the number of foreign players in club football in a move that will have far-reaching effects on the game.
Under the plans, first-team squad sizes would be limited to 25 players of which up to four would have to be products of a club's youth system and a further four trained in the same country.
The youth players can be of any nationality - something UEFA have had to agree on in order to comply with European Union labour laws and avoid a Bosman-style court case - but there would still be quotas on players from non-EU countries. UEFA are aiming to have the new rules in place by the start of the 2006/7 season though there would be a transitional period to allow clubs to adapt their squads to comply with the regulations.
UEFA vice-president Per Ravn Omdal launched the proposals at the 13th Conference of the leaders of member associations of European football's governing body here in Lisbon.
Omdal said: "We foresee a system where it is required that a club has to have trained seven or eight players from the first-team squad itself, or some trained within the national association.
"A possible solution would be to have four trained by the club and four within the national association, or three and three, but we are not talking about nationality.
"We do believe that this would be positive for training, for competitive balance, would reduce the importance of money in club football and create a larger pool of players for national teams.
"We believe that if we introduce a rule of home-grown players it would also be necessary to reduce the squad size - there's no point having a minimum of eight home-grown players in a squad of unlimited size. We foresee a limit of 25 players."
The final proposals will be presented to UEFA's Congress next year to be voted on.
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Again this would be ridiculous. A) your career could in effect be highly damaged by this, clubs hold on to you because your half decent, but not really good enough but they need you to make up some quota stunting your career.
It also has another huge problem, youngsters will only sign for big teams, they'll hold out for Man utd, chelsea,, arsenal and liverpool to ensure they can guarantee their future as a homegrown player at a top club. As a result they'll be huge polarisation of talent to the top clubs and the lower clubs whop formerly used to produce the talent will be screwed.
How does this help either? the players don't have to be home nationals, Players like Rob Huth, Filipe Oliveira, Michel Galaccio at chelsea, MAds timm, Djordjic, Pique at man utd and the whole arsenal youth team (with the exception pretty much of david bentley are all foreign) are just the best of foreign yout talent stolen from other clubs. These players are just nicked anyway and imposing sanctions won't really change the situation, just make it worse as clubs frantically steal anything resembling a person who can kick a football from smaller clubs so as to ensure they have enough good players weakening the smaller teams ridiculously.
UEFA have launched proposals designed to limit the number of foreign players in club football in a move that will have far-reaching effects on the game.
Under the plans, first-team squad sizes would be limited to 25 players of which up to four would have to be products of a club's youth system and a further four trained in the same country.
The youth players can be of any nationality - something UEFA have had to agree on in order to comply with European Union labour laws and avoid a Bosman-style court case - but there would still be quotas on players from non-EU countries. UEFA are aiming to have the new rules in place by the start of the 2006/7 season though there would be a transitional period to allow clubs to adapt their squads to comply with the regulations.
UEFA vice-president Per Ravn Omdal launched the proposals at the 13th Conference of the leaders of member associations of European football's governing body here in Lisbon.
Omdal said: "We foresee a system where it is required that a club has to have trained seven or eight players from the first-team squad itself, or some trained within the national association.
"A possible solution would be to have four trained by the club and four within the national association, or three and three, but we are not talking about nationality.
"We do believe that this would be positive for training, for competitive balance, would reduce the importance of money in club football and create a larger pool of players for national teams.
"We believe that if we introduce a rule of home-grown players it would also be necessary to reduce the squad size - there's no point having a minimum of eight home-grown players in a squad of unlimited size. We foresee a limit of 25 players."
The final proposals will be presented to UEFA's Congress next year to be voted on.
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Again this would be ridiculous. A) your career could in effect be highly damaged by this, clubs hold on to you because your half decent, but not really good enough but they need you to make up some quota stunting your career.
It also has another huge problem, youngsters will only sign for big teams, they'll hold out for Man utd, chelsea,, arsenal and liverpool to ensure they can guarantee their future as a homegrown player at a top club. As a result they'll be huge polarisation of talent to the top clubs and the lower clubs whop formerly used to produce the talent will be screwed.
How does this help either? the players don't have to be home nationals, Players like Rob Huth, Filipe Oliveira, Michel Galaccio at chelsea, MAds timm, Djordjic, Pique at man utd and the whole arsenal youth team (with the exception pretty much of david bentley are all foreign) are just the best of foreign yout talent stolen from other clubs. These players are just nicked anyway and imposing sanctions won't really change the situation, just make it worse as clubs frantically steal anything resembling a person who can kick a football from smaller clubs so as to ensure they have enough good players weakening the smaller teams ridiculously.
Anonymous wrote:
> imagine if they did this for English football...
Forest would rule all. With our superior youth system. HAHA.
> imagine if they did this for English football...
Forest would rule all. With our superior youth system. HAHA.
nah it will be boring. Lee trundle and co would suddenly be in the premiership as clubs rush to dilute their squads.
I think it's a marvelous rule. Frankly, I'm getting quite annoyed with all the foreign stars being raised and played over here, only for their nuturing to come back and aunt us in europe.
MAke it worldwide, people.
MAke it worldwide, people.
imagine if they did this for English football...
Then, if this goes into effect, they're a liiiiitle bit screwed. Heh.
bit more about it here.
[URL]http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=5568386§ion=news[/URL]
Apparentley not to be imposed until 2006/07 and inter milan had less than 50% italians in all 34 league games last season!
[URL]http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=5568386§ion=news[/URL]
Apparentley not to be imposed until 2006/07 and inter milan had less than 50% italians in all 34 league games last season!
Italian clubs can only sign 1 non-eu player a season (according to CM anyway!)
Is that really legal?
Is that really legal?
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