Football Union Of Russia Case Study

The Ministry of Sports is responsible for the development of all types of sport in Russia on the federal level. The federal law on the physical culture and sport underlies the activity of the Ministry that issues additional regulatory acts that concern all types of sport in general. There are various federations that have the status of non-governmental organizations and are classified by the type of sport they regulate. They were created in order to tackle specific problems of a particular type of sport, fulfill its stakeholders' needs more properly and monitor the development. The activity of the “Football Union of Russia” is based on its Charter that proclaims the principles of football development in Russia.
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Therefore, in 2005 the quota on foreign players was introduced. The imposition of a “7+4” limit implied that only seven foreign players can be on the field at the same time while other four players should be Russian. We will start our analysis with briefly explaining the logic of the restriction and then will turn to the exact consequences of the

Just as countries introduce high tariffs and quotas on agricultural products to support their national producers, the same thing has been implemented in Russian football. The desired outcome was to enable the development of Russian players who earlier were sitting on a bench while more experienced and higher skilled foreign professionals were playing the game. The quota should have reduced the moral hazard of clubs and made them invest in Russian players who afterwards could form a strong team on a national level. Indeed, in several years the Russian football team made huge progress by winning the third place in 2008 UEFA European Football Championship. However, the result was short-term and soon after a promising victory Russian national football returned to its previous level. The situation occurred due to several reasons. Firstly, the decreased competition for Russian players has reduced their motivation of self-development. In competing to become a football club member they received another advantage for being chosen – their nationality. Secondly, as clubs were obliged to always have Russian players on the field, they created additional demand for top-Russian players. This resulted in an inadequate wage policy where Russian top-players signed better contracts than their foreign more skilled colleagues. Besides that, another ramification was that the Ministry of Sports has lost its second source of Russian