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BRUSSELS, May 8 (Reuters) - The European Parliament dealt another blow to FIFA
president Sepp Blatter's controversial plans to curb the number of foreigners
at soccer clubs by voting against the proposals on Thursday.
EU lawmakers rejected Blatter's '6+5 rule', allowing no more than five foreign
players to start a match, by 518 votes to 49 but most backed the 'home-grown
player rule' of European soccer's governing body UEFA.
'The parliament calls on the member states and sports associations not to
introduce new rules that create direct discrimination based on nationality,
such as FIFA's 6+5,' the resolution said.
'It calls on the Commission to recognise the legality of measures favouring the
promotion of players who have come through training schemes, such as a minimum
number of locally-trained players, irrespective of their nationality.'
FIFA opposes the UEFA rule, which sets a quota of locally-trained players at
clubs but without any discrimination on nationality, arguing it encourages
recruitment at a young age.
UEFA says Blatter's proposal is unworkable in the EU because it contravenes the
bloc's laws on the free movement of workers and could lead to costly legal
challenges - a view echoed by the EU assembly.
'Unfortunately the 6+5 rule is not compatible with the free movement of persons
in the EU. The European Treaty is very clear on this point: discrimination on
the basis of nationality is not allowed and this also counts for football,'
Belgian MEP Ivo Belet, author of the parliament's report on the future of
professional football, told the assembly.
'We therefore ask FIFA to join forces with the European Parliament and the
European Commission and fully back the 'home-grown' rule.'
MEPs also slammed Blatter's idea of reaching a 'gentlemen's agreement' with the
individual associations at FIFA's congress later this month, saying he risked a
repetition of the 1995 'Bosman Ruling' by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
The ruling by Europe's top court, named after Belgian player Jean-Marc Bosman,
gave all sports professionals within the 27-member bloc the freedom to change
clubs.
'We ask Mr Blatter not to take us back to Bosman. We cannot go back to the
pre-Bosman era. A professional footballer is a worker and should be treated
like any other worker,' Greek MEP Mnolis Mavromatis, who wrote Thursday's
resolution, said.
Dutch MEP Toine Manders said: 'In the jungle of sport we need clear legal
guidelines. If you ask if these gentleman's agreements will hold, you are very
wrong.'
'We are talking about big business, powerful clubs who will go to court if
necessary. Mr Blatter will only open up another pandora's box like Bosman.'
The Commission is expected to come forward later this year with a proposal on
locally-trained players in all sports, which will require the backing of both
the EU assembly and the 27 sports ministers.
To change FIFA's rules, Blatter needs 75 percent support at the congress in
Sydney on May 29 where each of FIFA's 208 member associations who are eligible
to vote have one vote each and UEFA as an organisation has none.
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