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Minors: FIFA rejects appeals of FC Barcelona, Spanish FA

| | Aug 21, 2014, at 03:49 am
Munich, Aug 20 (IBNS) The FIFA on Wednesday said its Appeal Committee has decided to reject the appeals lodged by Spanish club FC Barcelonaand the Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF) and to confirm in their entirety the decisionsrendered by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee in the respective cases relating to the protection of minors.

As such, FC Barcelona is to serve a transfer ban which will see the club prevented from registering any players at both national and international level for two complete and consecutive transfer periods, starting with the next registration period (January 2015) given that the appeal of the club had beengranted suspensive effect by the chairman of the FIFA Appeal Committee.

"FC Barcelona has also been ordered to pay a fine of CHF 450,000 and been given a period of 90 days from today in which to regularise the situation of all minor players concerned," the FIFA said in a statement.

"Meanwhile, the RFEF has been ordered to pay a fine of CHF 500,000 and granted a period of one year in which to regularise their regulatory framework and existing system concerning the international transfer of minors in football," it said.

The terms of the decisions taken by the FIFA Appeal Committee were communicated to FC Barcelonaand the RFEF today.
 

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