African football agents set to launch association

By Daily Sports on January 13, 2016

African football agents are set to launch their own industry association, Daily Sports has learnt. Information reaching Daily Sports has it that the launch will take place at the second edition of the Football Player Agent Forum, which is billed to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, on February 10-11, 2016.

“Delegates attending the Forum will also establish the African Football Intermediaries Association (AFIA) and agents from all African countries have been invited to become ordinary members and to serve on the interim steering committee,” a statement by the promoters said. “The committee will receive its mandate from agents attending the launch and the main objective of AFIA is to become the continental voice for football agents. The Committee will be tasked to draft a constitution and to create sub-committees to ensure that AFIA becomes fully functional within one year of its launch,” the statement said.

Continuing, it said: “The key topics to be discussed at the Forum will focus on whether FIFA’s new Intermediary Regulations have made a difference and whether the 3% commission fee is a maximum or a guide for FA’s to impose on agents when selling players. The legality and fairness of the FIFA’s player Transfer Management System (TMS) will also be debated and a legal expert will address the issue of disputes between players and clubs and how to solve it through mediation. The aspect of ‘player contracts’ and their ‘image rights’ has also become a contentious issue and leading industry experts will discuss the best approaches to optimise a player’s earnings while under contract. Agents will also be allowed to introduce their player rosters to clubs and scouts during the ‘speed networking’ session at the Forum.”

The statement disclosed that the Forum will be addressed by Mel Stein, the chairperson of the Association of Football Agents (AFA) in the UK. It said that “the AFA was formed to ‘promote the collective interests’ of its more than 500 professional registered agents in the UK and Ireland,” adding: “Stein will speak about what the AFA has done in England and Europe to promote the concept of a ‘win-win situation’ for all stakeholders inclusive of agents, clubs and the FA under FIFA’s Intermediary Regulations. He will also report on the AFA’s campaign to govern agents through industry regulations as well as the appeal it lodged with the European Commission to scrap FIFA’s ‘unfair’ regulations governing intermediaries.”

Source Daily Sports

Posted January 13, 2016


 

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