How money can distract young players

The FIFA Court of Arbitration for Sport confirmed the banning of transfers activities for Barcelona FC for a year. The Catalan team was found guilty in breaking the law related to the signing of under-aged players.

The current law only permits transfers of under 18 foreign players in three cases:
1. If their parents have moved to that country for non-football reasons.
2. If they are from the European Union and age between 16 and 18.
3. If they live 100 km near the club.

We consider this ruling a positive one because it prevents young players for being exposed too early to the pressure of big contracts, and media exposure. Let children be children and develop their skills from their homelands.

Getting too much to soon influences the psychology of young players and makes them consider themselves as super stars before gaining any footballing success.

Being rich overnight is difficult to adapt with people so young and usually from poor backgrounds. It's not uncommon to hear about scandals in the press: car crushes, alcohol issues, marital problems.

A lot of money in the bank makes them financially secure and that puts players in a comfort zone and stops them from improving themselves.

Reasons for a blog like this

We are not against football. We love it. We are against the new frame football has acquired in recent years.

That frame is strongly commercially centered. There are so much money involved that it creates strong incentives for corruption.

Footballers nowadays are becoming celebrities and under the media spotlight they are showing us a life of scandal. Off-field activities are becoming more important than the actual game. In the field the situation isn't better. Unsportsmanship has increased as the prizes get higher. Loyalty has gone.

There is a gap between the teams and the fans and that gap is getting bigger and bigger. We want this gap to be reduced and we're going for that.