FIVB’s (volleyball) new decisions re: Foreign Players

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Took a while, but this is definitely interesting…http://www.fivb.org/en/Infomedia/PressReleaseDB.asp?No=16538&Language=0

Both deferring to National Federations for National Volleyball Leagues, but also to applicable labour law, as opposed to regulating over labour law re: international transfers and contractual matters (v. FIFA).

You will find the pursued balance (up to 3 ITC and 3 local — National Federation — players on the court at the same time in the foreseeable future) fascinating. I just pose the National Federations regulations of some particular countries somewhat “prone” to naturalizing and providing citizenship according to the also flexible (or prone to bending) national immigration rules (the examples of Russia, FYROM, and other countries are very well documented in basketball…). Thus, some financially apt teams could still find ways around this and pursue assimilation of top players, who otherwise would have to meet ITC on-court restrictions…
Would love to learn/hear/follow more on this…

Thanks to our colleague Andreas Zagklis for fwding this link!Best wishes

Tassos

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