Politics drain quality from men's Olympic field. By chance, Friedel, Victorine will strengthen U.S. men s Olympic team. It Seems To Me . . . Impact, implementation of rulings by European Union, Spanish court to be debated this week. All of European soccer is looking to a meeting to be held here in the capital of the European Union this week involving officials of world governing body FIFA, European governing body UEFA, outside soccer experts and European Union officials in a last chance effort to reach a compromise to head off the EU declaring illegal soccer s complex transfer rules governing how and when players can move from team to team.
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Both issues are of critical importance to players and fans in the United States, because, depending on how both are resolved, it may become vastly easier for American players to move to Europe and to play. Conversely, the issues could be resolved in a way that might make it even more difficult for Americans to play in Europe than it is today. Soccer, through the two governing bodies, argues that sport is essentially different from other kinds of employment situations, and that if the current transfer system were declared illegal, chaos would reign. To head off any action by the Commission, the soccer bodies have offered to sharply modify the current system. An association of different national unions representing players sharply opposes the compromise.