FIFA has imposed a year-long transfer ban on Barcelona for breaching its rules on the transfer of players aged under 18.The Spanish club has been sanctioned for breaking the rules in the case of 10 minors and been punished with a transfer embargo for two transfer windows and a fine of 450,000 Swiss francs.The Spanish FA has also been fined for rule breaches in terms of registering the players and fined 500,000 Swiss francs.FIFA said in a statement: "FC Barcelona has been found to be in breach of article 19 of the regulations in the case of 10 minor players and to have committed several other concurrent infringements in the context of other players."The disciplinary committee regarded the infringements as serious and decided to sanction the club with a transfer ban at both national and international level for two complete and consecutive transfer periods, together with a fine of 450,000 Swiss francs."

Additionally, the club was granted a period of 90 days in which to regularise the situation of all minor players concerned."The sanctions follow investigations conducted by FIFA's transfer matching system officials into under-18 players who were registered and participated in competitions with the club between 2009 and 2013.FIFA's rules state international transfers of minors are only permitted under limited circumstances, and have to be ratified by FIFA's players' status committee.The FIFA statement added: "The disciplinary committee emphasised that the protection of minors in the context of international transfers is an important social and legal issue that concerns all stakeholders in football."The committee highlighted that while international transfers might, in specific cases, be favourable to a young player's sporting career, they are very likely to be contrary to the best interests of the player as a minor."Young football players are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse in a foreign country without the proper controls.

This particular fact makes the protection of minors in football by the sport's governing bodies, especially by FIFA, even more important."The Spanish FA, which violated article 19 of the regulations regarding the first registration of the players, has been given a period of one year in to "regularise their regulatory framework and existing system concerning the international transfer of minors in football".Barcelona will almost certainly appeal against the transfer ban, which has cast a shadow of doubt over moves already agreed for Borussia Dortmund keeper Marc-Andre ter Stergen and Croatian 17-year-old Alen Halilovic, who turns 18 in June.Barcelona have a trio of youth players from South Korea, including much-sought after 15-year-old striker Lee Seung Woo, plus other players from Africa.FIFA only allows international youth transfers when one of three situations apply: the player's parents have moved country for their own, non-related reasons; the move takes place within the European Union if a player is aged between 16 and 18; or the player's home is less than 50 kilometres from the national border being crossed.

Source: http://sport.uk.msn.com/football/barca-handed-one-year-transfer-ban

Been awhile since i've been here but found this today and figured i'd post it wonder if that ban will get overturned.

Jordania replacement is Business associate of Roman so yeah nothing is illegl about that . I wouldnt be surprised if Vitesse is actually own by Roman which is not allowed in Uefa competition

Nice one @truthhurts.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/apr/01/chelsea-vitesse-arnhem-roman-abramovich

btw, mate you might wanna edit your first reply next time and add those 3 comments together in 1 :D.

Now this is the issue. People automatically think because it's Roman, that we're doing something corrupt with Vitesse. Where's the evidence? Have we even been proven guilty? No, but Barcelona has. They violated the rules and not just with one or two players but with ten. It also makes their respected youth academy look bad.

Like the quote I posted previously in this thread: Apples and oranges. The Vitesse thing is not a violation of the rules or has any corruption proven. All our youth players were signed legally and the loans to Vitesse are also legal. You can't say the same about Barca though.

LOL Ok lawyers read this and if you still think
otherwise take FIFA to court for false allegations and sentence .

<< FIFA's
investigation was carried out by FIFA Transfer Matching System (FIFATMS) over
the past year and subsequently by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee as part of
disciplinary proceedings.

A FIFA statement said:
"The RFEF and FC Barcelona were found to have violated several provisions
concerning the international transfer and first registration of non-Spanish
minors with the club, as well as other relevant regulations with regard to the
registration and participation of certain players in national competitions. The
investigations concerned several minor players who were registered and
participated in competitions with the club over various periods between 2009
and 2013."

"The Disciplinary
Committee emphasised that the protection of minors in the context of
international transfers is an important social and legal issue that concerns
all stakeholders in football. Above all, the committee highlighted that while
international transfers might, in specific cases, be favourable to a young
player's sporting career, they are very likely to be contrary to the best
interests of the player as a minor. On the basis of this analysis, the
committee concluded that 'the interest in protecting the appropriate and
healthy development of a minor as a whole must prevail over purely sporting
interests'."

Barcelona was found to
be in breach of Article 19 of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of
Players in the case of 10 minor players. The rule stipulates that international
transfers of players are only permitted if the player is over the age of 18,
but that "international transfers of minor players are permitted under
three limited circumstances, and such exceptions may only be granted after
evaluation by the sub-committee of the Players' Status Committee".

Barcelona were also
found to have committed several other concurrent infringements under Annexe 2
of the Regulations which cover the registration of a player's nationality and
eligibility.

RFEF was sanctioned for being complicit in the Barcelona registrations of minor
players.

"The Disciplinary Committee acknowledged that young football players are
vulnerable to exploitation and abuse in a foreign country without the proper
controls. This particular fact makes the protection of minors in football by
the sport's governing bodies, especially by FIFA, even more important,"
said the FIFA statement. >>

Have no respect for La
Masia anymore .. used to admire it a lot until today.

Mmm someone has escaped some serious prison
time or not yet ...

@tuan

No offense mate . I try to be very respectful , but do you ever read your articles ? You are comparing two completely different cases .

LOL that former owner, Jordania, is a joke that lost the club and lost his chairman position and in old classy way of regular classless man he talks none sense without any prove . He has more agenda to talk in such a way about his former club . After all he was basically forced to give up Vitesse . ( Not going go in details )

Just going to highlight very shortly on few BS that this article included because I can write a book on him .

• He is the one who started partnership with Chelsea ....
• Ever since Chelsea partnership with Vitesse they have grown stronger and stronger and Ajax started to complain to Eridivise
• If Chelsea intervened to prevent transfer of Kelvin Leerdam , how come he is in the club ?
• WIlfred Bony left . ... He was speculated to leave in last two transfers it was about time .. Vitesse did not miss him much at all LOL

There is no violation it is all jokes lol most likely backed by VItesse rivals .
Only reason why this even in the news because owner of both clubs are Russian ( Omg Russian mafia haha !!! ) and it is English club , and it is Chelsea .

So many bs claims by this old man and now he is even bigger joke . I understand It is in Georgian blood .

@Marcus: I did. I am not comparing anything, jesus. I am from the Netherlands and I found the article is ridiculous, I live here and I just found out about it today after @truthhurt posted it. Even if Vitesse has anything to do with Chelsea's boss I would more than welcome because that only make Dutch league stronger and better, to stop the domination of Ajax, PSV or other rich clubs.

As you said:
"The Disciplinary Committee acknowledged that young football players are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse in a foreign country without the proper controls. This particular fact makes the protection of minors in football by the sport's governing bodies, especially by FIFA, even more important," said the FIFA statement. >>

• Marcus: Have no respect for La Masia anymore .. used to admire it a lot until today.

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This is where I commented the earlier one. this is pure hate and "makes thing sounds big". You are obviously Barca's hater. I am not.

You completely ignore the fact that those kids would be living the dream of their life if they were to be recruited by La Masia. This is my point.

I found the hate toward this club is bizarre even though your clubs received TON OF TON of cash from your sugar daddy, bought all the best players out there legitimately while Barca bought the seeds and train them to be big tree. This is what MU used to do ALL THE TIME.

One thing I agree though that the club, or the home town where the foreign boys were found should receive money laters from Barca... if the kids stay there, do you think they would be anywhere close to when they are in Barca? If Messi had stayed in Argentina, would we even have had a living legend to watch week in week out???

Barca should be punished, but not they way and even if they does your hates and reasons are bizarre!

This is what happens when you play with money. Shame on Barça, I thought things like that only happens to money clubs like Juve, PSG or Chelsea.

Look at this children trafficking and crime against Humanity....

Really disgusting to make those hildren suffer +1 Marcus.

Haha You know more things about mafia than me no doubt :).

Poor kids without any future...

^ Scareface at the left :).

Has anyone even bothered to read into what La Masia is? Its not some super training facility were kids become slaves to become super athletes. They have an academy which a a school were players can continue to attend even if they are not allowed to participate in the sport. Barcelona even made this public in their defense which I believe many of you didn't bother to read.
There are things such as military school which are probably hundreds of times worse than what these "poor" kids are going through getting a once in a life time chance.

But yes Marcus, Barcelona will be so hurt now you don't respect them. It doesn't change anything. They will keep producing amazing super stars.

OMG IT SAYS ANAL+ on the advertisement board that is totally human trafficking.

Seriously guys, can we all calm the fuck down? Everyone makes mistakes, you guys are making it way worse than it actually is.

Pwahaha

@Marcus

You lost your respect for La Masia? Guess what. It doesn't make a difference.

La Masia still produced three players in the last 15 years that are better than any player in the history of Chelsea Football Club.

Wow, coming from a Real's fans I guess that means a lot for Barca's fans at this points when trolls are all over them. Bravo man