Emily is a football player who has been playing in a local youth soccer league for several years. Her performance has caught the attention of scouts from the nearby prestigious soccer academy

Case: Emily is a football player who has been playing in a local youth soccer league for several years. Her performance has caught the attention of scouts

from the nearby prestigious soccer academy. Emily’s parents are eager for her to join the program; however, the academy primarily recruits players

aged 17 and above, and she will turn 17 only in a few months.

The academy agrees to admit her if her parents agree to tamper her age on official documents to meet the age requirement. Her parents decide to trust

the club’s discretion and agreed to change her age in the application.

Emily is the best in her team and after about 6 months a scout from Real Madrid sees Emily skills and contact her parents with an offer to join the

academy squad. The parents, surprised and worried, agreed to the offer.

The player joins RM youth team and progresses rapidly. Her outstanding performances in training sessions and local matches soon caught the attention

of the coaching staff. Her remarkable agility, vision, and scoring ability made her a standout player on the youth team.

One sunny afternoon, as the Youth team was preparing for an important local youth tournament, the club’s Football Director approached Emily’s

parents. The director offered her a position on FC Barcelona’s professional team as soon as she turned 18 years, with an automatic loan to PSG in the

same year.

The offer was overwhelming for Emily and her parents. But there was a problem — the age tampering on Emily’s official documents was never corrected

and she would turn 18 only in the following year. The age deception could damage her career, but there was not enough time to inform the club, in a

routine compliance check on all players, the club’s compliance department noticed issues with Emily’s documents.

During a deep inspection, the discrepancy in Emily’s age documentation was discovered. The club’s investigation revealed the age tampering, which had

allowed Emily to join the club’s academy and play while technically ineligible. Worried about a major sanction from LaLiga or the RFEF, the Club

immediately suspended the player and called a meeting with Legal & Ethics, Technical/Football & Youth Department.

As the Legal & Ethical Dept Director of the Club, prepare a report about the case, considering the legal & ethical implications of this case for Emily, her

parents, the former club and FCB, and a recommendation for the Club about how to address the situation.

Regulations to consider in your analysis:

• Reglamento General RFEF Reglamento General edición julio 2023.pdf (rfef.es)

• FIFA RSTP 2023 Regulations-on-the-Status-and-Transfer-of-Players-May-2023-edition.pdf (fifa.com)

• Reglamento General La Liga a3f3a2d588487eacc8367ec793c3bf97.pdf (laliga.com)

• FIFA Code of Ethics: FIFA-Code-of-Ethics-2023.pdf

Formalities:

• Wordcount: 1500 words

• Presentation: 10-15 min

• Font: Arial 11 pts.

• Text alignment: Justified.

• The in-text References and the Bibliography must be in Harvard’s citation style.

Submission: Week 10 – Sunday 10/12/2023, 23h59

Weight: This task is 30% of your total grade for this subject. It assesses the following learning outcomes:

• Outcome 1: Interpret legal and ethical principles in sport.

• Outcome 2: Use ethical reasoning and models for moral decision-making.

Rubrics

Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69

Knowledge & Understanding

(30%)

Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner.

Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary.

Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary.

Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary.

Application (40%) Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class.

Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident.

Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident.

Communication

(30%)

Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck

Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck

Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the wordcount limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident.

Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed wordcount excessively and misspelling errors are evident.