Imagine a football player refusing to play a crucial UEFA Champions League match because his salary has been outstanding for a couple of weeks, or because his club delayed payment of part of the sign-on fee. Imagine, instead, a club preventing a player or a coach from training and/or playing or suspending the payment of his remuneration because of an unauthorized absence for several days.

Admittedly, withholding the execution of the employment contract can, in some cases, entail very damaging consequences to the other party and severely impair contractual stability.

It is therefore possible, in the context of football employment relationships, for a club, a football player or a coach that might be the victim of a previous breach by the other party, to avoid fulfilling their side of the contract, alleging the exception of “non adimpleti contractusI” (‘exception of non-fulfilled contract’ in English, or...

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