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Abstract
Every year, the world of football is surprised by the arriving of each time younger sensations, as promises for the future of international football. That is why FIFA has also sought to reduce the minimum age for registration of athletes from 12 to 10 years old. However, along with these promising new athletes, there is also an euphoria about who these young talents will become in the future, whether if they will be a new Messi, Neymar or Cristiano Ronaldo and, besides this euphoria, there is also a concern about the well-being, health, education and the future of these minors, if they do not continue their lives as professional football players.
In order to protect these minors from bad experiences, such as occurred in the past, FIFA, prohibited the international transfer of players under the age of 18. However, as it will be shown in the course of the present work, contrary to the intended protection, this prohibition raises the question of whether, in fact, it is more beneficial to prohibit the transfer of these young talents or to regulate the transfer of young athletes in a clear and compatible way with the fundamental rights of minors and parents in the exercise of parental responsibility