Dani Alves will not be able to sign for any club until January 1, 2022

This Friday afternoon the Brazilian Daniel Alves I was uploading a photo calmly having a coffee in Barcelona while waiting to find a new team and just almost a month after last September 17, he announced his disengagement with the São Paulo Brazilian.

Hours later Sports world reported that it is ruled out by the FC Barcelona given his high age. Whether it had been the Barça team or any other club, they will never be able to sign before January 1, 2022, the next transfer window date. FIFA. Despite being free and without a contractual relationship with any club.

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The key lies in the regulations FIFA where in its Article 6 of the Regulations and regarding the registration period makes it clear: “A player may register during one of the two annual registration periods set by the corresponding association. Associations may set different registration periods for their men’s competitions and female. An exception to this rule is the professional player whose contract has expired before the end of the registration period and who may register outside of said registration period. Associations are authorized to register such professional players as long as it is considered consideration of the sporting integrity of the corresponding competition “

In other words, the only exception to the rule is that Dani AlvesAs of August 31, he would have been free. But by then he still had a contractual relationship with the Brazilian club.

In this same line lies the Spanish regulations. Specifically, article 124 of the RFEF Regulations and that says in this regard that: “Footballers may only formalize their registration during the periods established for that purpose.

In those categories in which there are two registration periods, the first of both must be included in the temporal space that covers from the beginning of the season to the beginning of the National League Championships of the respective categories of state scope, and its duration will never exceed twelve weeks.

The second registration period will be established in the middle of the season and its duration will not exceed four weeks.

It is in the second point where it incorporates the same exception as FIFA by saying that “As an exception to the general provision contained in the previous section, those footballers with a” P “license whose contracts expire before the said periods expire, as well as those footballers that, with an “A” license, prove that they are in a legal situation of unemployment as a result of the termination of the employment contract with a sports entity before the aforementioned periods end. In any case, the player must be registered through a “P” license. ” .

Then it becomes clear that Dani Alves he will have to wait at least two and a half months more to be able to return to the pitch. Whether in Spain, in any club in the Spanish league, as in the rest of the world. Precisely the fact of being without a contract before closing the summer window is what allowed the Vallecano Ray and Elche could register the Colombian Radamel Falcao and Shepherd. The two terminated their contracts hours before the end of the summer transfer market that concluded on August 31.

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