{"id":3494,"date":"2014-03-05T11:36:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2014-03-05T20:28:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T04:28:49","slug":"fifa-punishes-5-clubs-from-argentina-uruguay-for-illegal-international-player-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/05\/fifa-punishes-5-clubs-from-argentina-uruguay-for-illegal-international-player-transfers\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA punishes 5 clubs from Argentina, Uruguay for illegal international player transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fifa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3553\" alt=\"fifa\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fifa.png\" width=\"687\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fifa.png 687w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fifa-300x261.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ZURICH, Switzerland\u2014FIFA has sanctioned five clubs from Argentina and Uruguay for illegal international player transfers.<\/p>\n<p>The case involved so-called \u201cbridge transfers\u201d where clubs collaborate to park players with a team before they quickly move on without ever playing a match.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA said Wednesday that its disciplinary panel punished Uruguayan club Sud America with a one-year transfer embargo and a 40,000 Swiss franc ($45,000) fine.<\/p>\n<p>The club played a \u201ccentral role in the bridge transfer scheme,\u201d FIFA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Sud America signed six players in 2012 who never played for the first team before being transferred to clubs in Argentina. Five of the six initially moved on loan.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA said the clubs \u201cacted in bad faith by deliberately conducting transfers for non-sporting purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Argentine clubs Central Cordoba and Independiente were each fined 50,000 Swiss francs ($56,000), Rosario Central was fined 20,000 Swiss francs ($22,500) and Racing Club was fined 15,000 Swiss francs ($17,000).<\/p>\n<p>The clubs can appeal their sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA investigated using details that clubs must file through the online system processing cross-border transfers, which is managed by a subsidiary of football\u2019s governing body.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA made the Transfer Matching System mandatory in 2010 to help curb financial wrongdoing and monitor involvement of agents acting for clubs and players.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA did not identify the players or the original selling clubs involved, which did not face disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the players were nationals of Argentina and one was from Paraguay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH, Switzerland\u2014FIFA has sanctioned five clubs from Argentina and Uruguay for illegal international player transfers. The case involved so-called \u201cbridge &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}