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🇨🇦⚽ The Cost of Canada’s Soccer Model: Millions Missed, Growth Stalled
⏱️ Reading time: ~8 minutes For: sports law professionals, club executives, investors, and anyone serious about the business and governance of football…
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Gold Cup Reflections: Why Infrastructure — Not Talent — Is Holding CONCACAF Back
📖 Reading time: 6 minutes 👥 Written for federation executives, club directors, legal advisors & football development professionals in the CONCACAF…
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The Football Regulatory Podcast
Episode 1 - Introduction to the Football Regulatory Podcast
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Marsch v. CONCACAF? Procedural Breakdown, Legal Blind Spots, and the Cost of Ignoring the Football Regulatory Profession in North America
Reading Time: 6–7 Minutes | For aspiring Canadian sports lawyers, football regulatory professionals, federation executives, sport management faculty…
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What You Don’t Know Is Costing You: The Capacity Gap Draining Millions from CONCACAF Football
🕒 Reading time: 5 minutes · For executives, legal professionals, agents, and football governance stakeholders in the CONCACAF region
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June 2025

From Representation to Reform — How Club Associations Can Drive Competitive Football Economies
Reading time: 5 min | Audience: Club Presidents • League Executives • General Secretaries • Governance Consultants
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Regulating the Middlemen — Why Agents’ Associations Are Now Essential to Global Governance
Reading time: 5 min | Audience: Agents • Sports Lawyers • Regulatory Officials • Legal Counsels • FFAR Reform Analysts
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💸 Billions on the Field, No Vote on the Future: Why Football Leagues Remain Outside the Decision-Making Core
A 4-minute read for Legal Executives | Club Executives | League Governance Actors | Players Associations | Sports Law Educators | and anyone shaping…
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✊🏾 The Players’ Voice — Why Players’ Associations Are Transformative Governance Institutions, Not Interest Groups
Reading time: 5 min | Audience: Executive Directors • General Secretaries • CBA Negotiators • Legal Counsels • Governance Reformers
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Stakeholder Consultation in Football: From Governance Theory to Regulatory Reality
🕒 5 min read By Andrew M. Werners | Founder, Pitchside Sports Consulting
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⚖️ The FIFA Jurisdiction Blind Spot: Pacta Sunt Servanda and the Crisis of Legal Recognition in the West
Why Member Associations across North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and the Guianas are breaching obligations they don’t fully understand …
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⚖️ What is a Football Regulatory Expert?
And why we built the only football regulatory database of its kind 🕐 Reading time: 6 minutes
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