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Football is a universal passion, whether in the modern sophisticated metropolises of the West, in the Australian Outback, in the outer reaches of the Pacific, in tiny villages in Central Asia or in deepest Africa.
As well as a passion, football is one of the most powerful universal languages.
It is these characteristics – the passion and the universal language – that give football its strength and its extraordinary capacity to bring people together.
Football has enormous potential, which cannot be ignored, to channel this strength not only into a spectacle, and into its own legitimate economy but also into social causes, with equally universal scale and reach.
I endorse this report and would like to point out that although football’s governing bodies might have a legitimate wish to defend their own sports procedures, applying to the civil courts, even when not justified in sports terms, they cannot be penalised by disciplinary regulations.
I would therefore call on football’s governing body to review its statutes in order to seek a proper balance between, on the one hand, the legitimate right of all sport actors to appeal to the civil courts, and, on the other, the normal functioning of competitions."@en1
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