gudnex22: FIFA.com
The FIFA Appeal Committee has decided to
reject the appeals lodged by Spanish club FC
Barcelona and the Real Federación Española de
Fútbol (RFEF) and to confirm in their entirety
the decisions rendered by the FIFA Disciplinary
Committee in the respective cases relating to
the protection of minors.
As such, FC Barcelona is to
serve a transfer ban which will
see the club prevented from
registering any players at both
national and international level
for two complete and
consecutive transfer periods,
starting with the next
registration period (January
2015) given that the appeal of
the club had been
granted suspensive effect by
the chairman of the FIFA
Appeal Committee.
FC Barcelona has also been
ordered to pay a fine of CHF
450,000 and been given a
period of 90 days from today in
which to regularise the
situation of all minor players
concerned.
Meanwhile, the RFEF has been
ordered to pay a fine of CHF
500,000 and granted a period
of one year in which to
regularise their regulatory
framework and existing system
concerning the international
transfer of minors in football.
The terms of the decisions
taken by the FIFA Appeal
Committee were
communicated to
FC Barcelona and the RFEF
today.