The High Council for Sports approves another issue of a licence for a foreign minor player

Spanish High Council for Sports, 20 May 2021

Date of the decision: 2021-05-20

At the end of May 2021, the High Council for Sports (CSD - Consejo Superior de Deportes) rendered another decision on the application of the parent of a minor to whom both the Spanish Royal Football Federation and Madrid Football Federation denied the issue of the sporting license.

This decision goes in line with previous CSD jurisprudence regarding the issue of sporting licenses to minors. In the case at hand, the minor had Honduran citizenship. One of the clubs belonging to the Madrid Football Federation requested his inscription to the juvenile competition of the 2020-2021 season. The club filed its application based on the parents and the minor’s passports and, additionally, on the document of international protection of the father and the minor.

Both the...

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