Soccer Litigation Tests Relationships Between Teams, Leagues

By Christopher Hapka   Two high-profile lawsuits in a year may not seem like much in most global industries. But in soccer, where arbitration is enforced by rule on all recognized leagues, the two suits that broke out in Chile and the United States in 2009 are an aberration. Both cases sought to test the relationships between professional soccer teams and their leagues, but because of the focus on arbitration on the part of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, both were extremely short