Soccer and Antitrust
As the World Cup is fast approaching (Yes!), I was trying to figure out some connection between it and antitrust. But the always excellent Sports Law Blog beat me to it. The Sports Law Blog reports that the Italian antitrust authority (the Autorita Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato) “weighed in on the nation’s ever-growing soccer scandals and called for widespread changes in the way players and agents operate.” The Sports Law Blog comments:
What’s interesting about this, from a comparative perspective, is that in the few American cases where an agent has also had an interest in the team with which a client was negotiating (namely, Detroit Lions v. Argovitz, 580 F. Supp. 542), similar conflicts have been addressed as breaches of fiduciary duty, not antitrust violations. Of course, the desire of the regulators to get involved may have more to do with the publicity the scandal has attracted than the merits of the antitrust claims.
I too think the authority’s comments have “more to do with the publicity … than the merits of the antitrust claims.”
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