Introduction
The importance of football due to its roots in society and its capacity to mobilize the population has been on an upswing in the past years, especially with the addition of female sports to the mix of watched and enjoyed sports, where before only male sports made the cut.
Spain has regulated professional and amateur sports through laws given the public interest aspect of sport granted by the Spanish Constitution. Therefore, the discretion to establish whether a sport is considered professional or not is granted to the Spanish Superior Council on Sports (Law 10/1990 on Sports, hereinafter “Sports Law,” Art. 8. e). The Spanish...
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