Respecting and following the principles of good governance, transparency and integrity is essential to promote the development of football globally and to protect the game. In this regard, the present paper highlights the importance of FIFA’s efforts through the Clearing House project and the recently created FIFA Clearing House (FCH) entity for the football landscape, especially in ensuring the correct calculation and distribution of training rewards to training clubs and in mitigating fraudulent conduct through the implementation of an automatic, centralised and integrated system.[1]
Introduction
Over the past decade, the football industry has undergone several transformations on and off the pitch, including the unprecedented amounts that football clubs are spending on the transfer of professional players.[2] However, this has not translated into a proportional increase in the distribution of training rewards (training compensation and solidarity contribution). In fact, the gap between the amount of rewards due and those actually paid to training clubs (only one-fifth of the former) has...
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