Introduction

This CAS award is of particular interest since it deals with some technical aspects of how international transfers of players are processed in the FIFA Transfer Matching System (TMS), which are rarely brought before the Court Arbitration for Sport (CAS). In fact, this award deals with a specific TMS-related procedure, the so-called “validation exception”. According to the definition provided by the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (FIFA RSTP), a validation exception is “an issue relating to an international transfer in TMS that prevents it from proceeding with to the next status, thus requiring FIFA’s intervention” (cf. Definition 40 FIFA RSTP). Albeit technical procedures concerning TMS (such as validation...

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