![]() Vice Presidents: Camila Garcia and Geremi.Following the statutory reforms established in February 2021, the board increased in size as well as in diversity, making space for new voices and instituting a mandatory minimum threshold of 33 percent for the least-represented gender: He has been president since the FIFPRO Congress in Paris in November 2021. The FIFPRO Executive Board consists of 18 members, including president David Aganzo, for the term 2021–2025. In 2021, FIFPRO played an active role in the group evacuation of women's footballers and athletes from Afghanistan. FIFPRO is a firm advocate of ensuring that all people, including players, should be guaranteed and protected by human rights. In the last five years, FIFPRO has repeatedly intervened to protect and enforce the rights of players to participate in an environment free from sexual misconduct, harassment, and abuse. These minimum conditions, agreed upon by FIFA and other governing bodies, offer women more job security and came into effect as of 1 January 2021. FIFPRO introduced new regulations to protect the rights of current and prospective mothers. In recent years, FIFPRO has established itself as a leading reference in the football industry through player surveys and research into concussion, mental health, social media abuse, player workload monitoring, and more.įIFPRO looks into securing a safe workspace for players, promoting their rights as ordinary workers. Writing for the BBC, Matt Slater said "professional footballers do not enjoy the same freedoms that almost every other EU worker does", and that "players look at US sport, and wonder why their career prospects are still constrained by transfer fees and compensation costs". He claims this leads to these players being "vulnerable targets of crime syndicates, who instigate match-fixing and threaten the very existence of credible football competitions". According to the President of FIFPRO Division Europe Bobby Barnes, 28% of the money from a transfer fee is paid to agents, and that many players are not paid on time or at all. Phillipe Piat, the FIFPRO president at the time, said "the transfer system fails 99% of players around the world, it fails football as an industry and it fails the world's most beloved game". In 2013, FIFPRO launched a legal challenge against the transfer system. ![]() FIFPRO supported Belgian footballer Jean-Marc Bosman in his judicial challenge of the football transfer rules which led to the Bosman ruling in 1995. The emphasis was thereby laid on the freedom of the football player to be able to choose the club of his choice at the end of his contract. Indeed, FIFPRO likewise had in mind propagating and defending the rights of professional footballers. In addition, it wished to co-ordinate the activities of the different affiliated groups in order to promote the interests of all professional footballers. įIFPRO has grown from a European organisation into a global network and has done much to support countries on other continents – Asia/Oceania, Africa, and North, Central and South America – in their efforts to set up players' associations.įIFPRO tried to offer the players' associations or other interest associations the means for mutual consultation and co-operation to achieve their objectives. The latest congress was in Uruguay in October 2022. It was originally laid down that a congress would be held once every four years at a minimum. FIFPRO was responsible for increasing the solidarity between professional footballers and players' associations. The articles of association of FIFPRO were thereby adopted and the objectives accurately laid down. In the second half of June 1966, the first FIFPRO congress took place in London, just before the start of the 1966 FIFA World Cup. ![]() ![]() On 15 December 1965, representatives of the French, Scottish, English, Italian and Dutch players' associations met in Paris, with the objective of setting up an international federation for footballers. Lionel Messi have the most appearances in the FIFPRO World 11 with 16 appearances, whereas Cristiano Ronaldo has had 15 appearances occupying the second place. In addition, there are four candidate members. FIFPRO, with its global headquarters in Hoofddorp, Netherlands, is made up of 66 national players' associations. The Fédération Internationale des Associations de Footballeurs Professionnels (English: International Federation of Professional Footballers), generally referred to as FIFPRO, is the worldwide representative organisation for 65,000 professional footballers.
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