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"en.20050221.12.1-042"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Parliament recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations. At today’s sitting, I should like to express my wholehearted support for UEFA’s latest project, the aim of which is to ensure that rich and poor clubs in both the old and the new EU, and indeed in all of Europe, enjoy the same opportunities. The project involves a progressive introduction of quotas for club-trained players, with a minimum of two players in one year’s time, and eventually of four players. This is intended to force clubs to work with young players, and to prevent rich clubs from merely buying up talented players. There will also be quotas for players from the country in which the club is based, which are intended to promote national football. In practice, these quotas will also deter attempts by the richest clubs to build up football armies of hired ‘galácticos’ or superstars. UEFA’s proposals comply with the principle of solidarity, upon which the European Union is founded. It is worth sacrificing another of the EU’s principles that is in any case frequently violated, namely the principle of free movement of workers, for the sake of this principle of solidarity."@en1
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