The European Football Agents Associations (EFAA) is currently the international voice of the Player’s Agents and is recognized by the European Commission and the football stakeholders as an official organisation.
Roberto Branco Martins is the General Manager of EFAA and represents the organisation in all international activities.On 1 April 2015, the football sector was confronted with the entry into force of the Regulations on Working with Intermediaries. As a consequence, the regulations on players’ agents ceased to exist.
This development did not come as a surprise. Already in 2009 FIFA announced that it planned to overhaul the system of players’ agents regulation. The main reason for FIFA to make an end to the system of regulation was the assumption that many non-licensed agents were involved in players’ transfers. FIFA claimed that 70 to 75 percent of the transfers were carried out by non-licensed agents.
Unfortunately the research that established these numbers has never been made public, despite the fact that it was presented as the basis for a severe change in policy. This is against the trend for sports governing bodies to promote evidence based policies. In addition, such a conclusion that the transfers were carried out by non-licensed agents is...
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