Concacaf hired executive search firms Korn Ferry and Major, Lindsey & Africa to oversee its search for a general secretary and chief legal/compliance officer. Candidates for generalsecretary must have a proven track record of running a successful business, managing profit and loss statements, overseeing a regional staff, organizing large-scale events and managing broadcast,commercial, and digital […]
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Report: U.S. women answer complaint
With U.S. Soccer and the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Players’ Association on a fast track to have their labor dispute decided in Federal Court, a court hearing will be held on May25. James Vlahakis of OTF Soccer reported that the PA filed aresponse to the federation’s complaint on March 1 and outlined the affirmative […]
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What They're Saying: Professor Stefan Szymanski
“These people didn’t suddenly have a conversion to honesty and fair dealing. They were told very clearly by the lawyers: This is do or die.” — Stefan Szymanski,a professor of sports management at the University of Michigan, on the FIFA Congress’ passage of reforms deemed necessary to show FIFA’s cooperation with the U.S. Department of […]
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Scotiabank ready to pull Concacaf deal
John Doig, the Bank of Nova Scotia’s chief marketing officer, says that the Canadian bank, better known as Scotiabank, is ready to pull its $20 million sponsorship of the ConcacafChampions League if Concacaf does not pass a series of reforms at its meeting Thursday. Doig told Bloomberg it is ready to use the “reputation clause” […]
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Legal primer explains past and (possible) future of soccer litigation
By Paul Kennedy(@pkedit) The lawsuit filed by U.S Soccer against U.S. Women’s National Team Players Association in U.S. DistrictCourt in Chicago has made plenty of news, but it will be a short case. Kessler’s first two cases, it could be argued, were test cases that had nothing to do with soccer but used the sport […]
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U.S. Soccer wins procedural round in women's suit
Lawyers for U.S. Soccer and the United States Women’s National Soccer Team Players Association met in Federal court for the first on Tuesday in a procedural hearing, and the court granted U.S.Soccer’s request for an expedited schedule on its motion for summary judgment and gave the Players Association 21 days to respond to the federation’s […]
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Arguments behind latest legal sparks in U.S. women's suit
The Women’s National Soccer Team Players Association and U.S. Soccer filed briefs on Monday in their ongoing fight over whether they have a labor agreement that takes them through the end of2016 or whether it expires at will, giving the players the power to strike and use that leverage to seek a new agreement before […]
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What They're Saying: Megan Rapinoe
“Naturally, we’re upset. The players are very, very upset. We feel disrespected. We feel that our personal information, our privacy and our safety was handled frivolously and with realnegligence. I doubt it was purposeful, but it’s an egregious error, and one that’s unacceptable. We’re public figures. There have been issues of privacy and hacking and […]
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What do U.S. women's national team players make?
The Memorandum of Understanding at issue in the lawsuit U.S. Soccer filed against the U.S. Women’s National Team Players Association contains in great detail the salaries, bonuses, benefits and perksof women’s national team players, both with the national team and in the NWSL. USWNT SALARIES. U.S. Soccer agreed to keep 24 women’snational team players under […]
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U.S. Soccer takes U.S. women to Federal court
Following a meeting on Wednesday between U.S. Soccer and the U.S. Women’s National Team Players Association that failed to resolve legal issues what are the terms of the employment of women’s nationalteam players, U.S. Soccer filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division later in the day, the […]