{"id":164,"date":"2022-11-18T06:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T06:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/?p=164"},"modified":"2022-11-18T06:56:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T06:56:56","slug":"the-fifa-clearing-house-and-the-future-of-nigerian-football-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/2022\/11\/18\/the-fifa-clearing-house-and-the-future-of-nigerian-football-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"The FIFA Clearing House and the Future of Nigerian Football Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) has evolved since its establishment in May 1904, always seeking, to adopt international best practices in its approach to issues regarding FIFA, Member Associations, and all stakeholders in football. The introduction of the FIFA Clearing House (FCH), the implementation of which began on November 16, 2022, is the latest in FIFA\u2019s journey to ensuring true professionalization, internationalization, transparency, and accountability in the football ecosystem. The ninth President of FIFA, Gianni Infantino believes that \u2018this will finally enhance transparency and accountability in the whole transfer market. While we agree with the FIFA supremo on this, we look at what the introduction of the FCH means to Nigerian Football, its Club sides, and the overall football economy in Nigeria. <a href=\"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/The-FIFA-Clearing-House-and-the-Future-of-Nigerian-Football-Clubs.pdf\">Click here to read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The specific objectives of the FCH are to \u201cprocess specific payments related to the transfer of football players between clubs;  protect the integrity of the football transfer system ; enhance and promote financial transparency in the football transfer system; and prevent fraudulent conduct in the football transfer system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[39,41,26,40,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexsetters.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}