Football is a competitive sport. Players in Europe train with their local club youth program since their childhood, until they gain enough skill to make the professional club. Because of the plethora of clubs in Europe, European professional football has also become a competitive business. The competitiveness leads to top clubs being able to refine their skills at the expense of the worse clubs, who are overlooked by the top players who feel that the paycheck and status offered by the worse clubs are too low for them. This forces the lower tier clubs into a cycle of poverty due to their inability to win. This is because of their lack of top tier players. This cycle also perpetually places the top ranking clubs against each other, resulting …show more content…
Some even folded due to bankruptcy. In order to end these cycles, the Union of European Football Association (UEFA) passed the Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, which restricts a club's budget to their earnings, therefore preventing a club from going into debt, and making the worse clubs more competitive with the top tier clubs. However, some feel that the FFP does little to balance the profits earned by the different clubs, and therefore does little to balance out the budgets of each club, resulting in the same cycle of poverty and competition that was occurring prior to the FFP regulations. Additionally, many low tier clubs are suffering from FFP, since they are now unable to sell their good players to top tier teams for handsome profits. Furthermore, international debate has been held on whether or not to expand FFP regulations to other parts of the football-playing …show more content…
For example, I feel that there should be a spending cap of one hundred million Euros on all European clubs. This spending cap will only encompass a club's spending on its player's annual contract; therefore, a club can buy as many players as they desire for the going rate, however, the club cannot pay their players a combined sum of over one hundred million Euros a year. This will help to increase competition between upper and lower tier clubs while keeping the market from deflating. In addition, I feel that it is vital to restrict a club's total spending to the amount that they make, therefore, lowering the chance that a club goes bankrupt. I feel that the punishment for transgressing the FFP regulations should be altered so that it becomes less desirable for a club to transgress the regulations. I am confident that this will be accomplished through fines that alter in severity depending on the severity of a club's transgression. These fines would then be given to lower tier clubs so that they can increase the quality of their grassroots programs. In order to determine which club will receive the funds, FIFA will evaluate which club's grassroots program could benefit most from these funds, based on their current state, and the potential for them to grow. FIFA will also be responsible for overseeing the allocation of these funds, in order to ensure that they are being used for the betterment
Cause A. Over the past few years inflation of player contracts has made it hard for the smaller market teams to play competitively w...
Anyone who has been involved in an organized sport, whether it is backyard football or a high school sports team, knows that these sports all have organizations that are responsible for setting rules, determining conditions of play, and penalizing individuals who infringe the rules. Some of the organizations like the National Football league and the MLB are familiar to most people, the rules they follow are not generally understood by anyone who is not closely associated with the sport. Most fans and sport critics assume that what is happening inside these organizations are of little concern to them. However, this is not the case. In the MLB, the New York Yankees spend an excessive amount of money every year to obtain big name players. A luxury tax was put into effect for teams that go over the spending limit. However, the Yankees are the only team that pays the tax because they are the only team that exceeds the spending limit. The players, coaches, fans, and I have argued that a salary cap would be the best possible way to allow teams in the Major Leagues an equal opportunity getting to the World Series.
officials or coaches should be given fines which increase for each infraction. If the abuse
...salary cap will provide an answer for some of the most serious problems facing the NBA. It will lower ticket prices, allow more teams to be more competitive and eliminate the any future lockouts. If these problems can be fixed by enforcing a hard salary cap, I don't see why it shouldn't be done. The NBA should enforce a hard salary cap.
Football academies are environments in which promising footballers are trained and developed with the goal of becoming elite senior athletes (Crust, Nesti & Littlewood, 2010). English academies operate a dual sporting goal according to Isoard-Gautheur, Guillet-Ducas & Duda (2013), in which they aim to teach and help athlete’s master skills, but also have an obligation to ensure enough athletes break through into the senior team. Academies train athletes from the ages of 10 to 18 on a part time format, using elite coaches and elite competition between other academies to enhance their player’s ability (Crust, Nesti & Littlewood, 2010). Academies are very much utilised as a progressive filter, which begins with a large number of athletes at the youngest age, with progressively smaller numbers of athletes in each age group as age increases (Crust, Nesti & Littlewood, 2010). Whether an athlete is retained for the next year is subject to player evaluation by coaches and directors within the academy, thus requiring athletes to demonstrate competency as well as achieving success (Isoard-Gautheur, Guillet-Ducas & Duda, 2012; Crust, Nesti & Littlewood, 2010).
Example one is that it would be different for each sports to fit the needs of the number of players like golf cap would be different from football. Secondly put salary caps so one collage can't pay one player more than another collage so players are not influenced by the amount of money. Lastly "minimum salary could be $25,000 per player in each sport. This would obviously not make the athletes rich, but it would give them enough to live like typical college students." (Nocera).
Instead, put each collegiate player on salary (Thelin). Once again, there are too many flaws to count. For instance, to put a collegiate player on salary, the NCAA would have to take into concern state income tax (Thelin). Each state differs in this regard. Perhaps this will be used as a recruiting tool for universities. The team markets that their state has a lower state income tax than other schools. On top of taxes, the student-athlete would still need to pay for tuition, books, room and board, meal plans, etc. (Thelin). There are flaws to every solution, so why try and change what the NCAA has been doing for years.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, has said that the high revenue sports subsidize less profitable sports like lacrosse, soccer, and hockey (Majorol). The consensus is if universities, with vast amounts of funding, start offering a play and get paid initiative that the lesser colleges would struggle to compensate, from a declining recruiting class, and their less popular athletic programs would slowly fizzle to nonexistence. Hypothetically, as athletes recognize that they can get an education, play college sports, and also get paid like an employee they will start transitioning away from the lesser schools while creating a pool of players in the top schools. Not only would that turn out as a horrible situation for minor schools, but this also means that college sports’ would not be exiting to watch when the top four schools fight it out, in the tournament each year. Eventually, ratings and ticket sales would go down due to the loss of unpredictability in games. College athletics are only a portion of negatives that come out of paying student athletes, the athletes themselves are also in virtue of
While looking at these numerous problems I remember at a time my uncle told me that the business of soccer is good business, there is so much wealth to the be tapped if done correctly. The bad transfer system makes it difficult for European based players to move the United States. Average players like Kaka have tried to move to clubs like Los Angeles and have had deal not been able to go through because we have an Americanized sports version of a salary cap, so that everything is fair. In life and sports “Survival of the fittest” so why make an artificial environment that counter to nature? Players who deserve high wages like superstars deserve it and should have to suffer for one who performs subpar. These caps makes superstars like Kaka, Fran...
Both the NBA and college basketball seem to be in a rut. And as stated
Weaknesses Poor management of player relations. Deteriorating brand image of certain players. Little to no control of the players off the court. The goal of creating a fair playing field among big and small market teams has led to too many regulations. Few superstar talents to draw fan attention/loyalty.
Money has always been a part of soccer's history. Players would move for bigger and better wages all the time throughout history. Especially during the height of soccer in the United States and the NASL. As time progressed more clubs began to buy out players contracts from their teams in a way of transferring big names to the team. Soccernomics, by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, describes how purchasing players for mass amounts of money became the norm in the soccer world today. Kuper and Szymanksi studied the influence of transfer market changes from 1978 to 1997 finding that, “transfers explained only 16 percent of their total variation in league position. By contrast, their spending on salaries explained a massive 92 percent variation” (48). This is due to the fact that when players are paid higher salaries they settle in with the team better knowing that the team is putting trust in them; instead of constantly buying new players and messing with team chemistry. Teams spend absurd amounts of money on players that statistically wi...
The purpose of this essay is to look at the different under-represented groups within football and discuss the barriers these groups will face in participation in football. Underrepresentation is defined as “To state or imply as being lower in quantity, quality, or degree than is actually the case” (Thefreedictionary, 2016). These groups can be from the elite level of football all the way down to grassroots level, all participants in sport will have at some point faced a barrier that will have affected their participation within the sport, To some these barriers can be overcome and they will continue participating, But to others they may lead to a person or a group to stop participating in football. The FA who are the main governing body of
Sports are one of the most profitable industries in the world. Everyone wants to get their hands on a piece of the action. Those individuals and industries that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these sports teams are hoping to make a profit, but it may be an indirect profit. It could be a profit for the sports club, or it could be a promotion for another organization (i.e. Rupert Murdoch, FOX). The economics involved with sports have drastically changed over the last ten years.