STANDARDISATION OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT FOR FOOTBALL AGENTS UNDER THE FIFA FOOTBALL AGENT REGULATIONS
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Unfair practices of football agencies have been defined as acts contrary to regulatory aspects of ethics and professionalism for football agents. While football agency services should follow good agency practices and be honest with regard to agencies’ clients, previous FIFA rules did not enable affiliated associations to curb a broad range of unfair practices of football agencies. This paper provides a snapshot of the FIFA Football Agent Regulations (known as the FFAR) and suggests recent reforms building on advances in the FIFA regulatory regime. This article also discusses professional and ethical standardisation in football agent practice under the FFAR and
their implications for professionals and for professionalism in the global football industry. It further examined the role of FIFA’s regulatory and decision-making functions in the global football industry in shaping the determination of worldwide legally binding standards to be met in all FIFA’s member associations and setting the standards of conduct, performance and ethics that govern football agents professionals.
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