Heather MacKenzie received her law degree from Duke University Law School and undergraduate degree from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. With over 15 years of legal experience in the US and in Germany, Ms. MacKenzie is well-qualified to represent athletes in the international sports market. She is a State of North Carolina certified sports […]
Tag: Soccer
John Kosmina certainly thinks so. The Sydney FC coach has a struggle on his hands to keep many of his stars who are attracting lucrative offers from not only other A League clubs, but overseas too. [Kosmina slams signing system] Under the current system, any player who is out of contract at June 30 in […]
If you saw the bottom line Wednesday on ESPN you might have noticed that David Beckham and his agent are currently in discussion with A.C. Milan, in an attempt to loan Beckham to the Italian club. Some of you might be saying, “Didn’t Beckham just arrive in America? Why is he headed back overseas?” Don’t […]
Definitions of the word ‘exclusive’ include ‘sole’, ‘complete’, ‘undivided’, ‘full’, ‘inimitable’ and ‘absolute’. Inherent in the meaning of ‘exclusive sponsorship’ is an (official) association with a sporting event, by an organization, at the exclusion of other organizations. Organizations that wish to obtain such affiliation with sporting events generally have to pay a lot of money […]
Unless you’ve lived under a rock the last few weeks you would have seen that financial markets around the world are in wide state of volatility. As the US Government tries to flesh out a bailout plan to rescue some of the world’s biggest companies, it is a good time to take a look at […]
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Beijing Affect
One of the many concerns for athletes and others around the world prior to the Olympic Games was the health standards and pollution in China. Athletes expressed their desire to move the games and some even went so far as to not compete in the Olympics because of China’s poor health standards and pollution record. […]
In my last article, I discussed the preparations that I undertook to ensure that my actions during the Transfer Window were as effective as possible. For those of you new to soccer, the Transfer Windows are the two main periods in the year when soccer clubs can buy and sell players (players on free transfers […]
In recent years, there has been a progressive increase in the number of footballers failing to honor their contracts. In soccer, most players are signed to 3, 4 or 5 year contracts. The sad truth is that many supporters of soccer know that this is meaningless today. The evidence shows that a contract provides little […]
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Viva Espana
As Chris Lesley said in Kicking The Habit, soccer is on its way to becoming one of the next big American sports. It has already reached phenomenal levels overseas, and is rapidly growing in America. When I was a kid, I remember watching the 1994 World Cup. After a good showing by the U.S. Team, […]
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Iraq drops soccer team
First the country started to break apart; now the soccer team has officially dissolved. After losing 1-0 to Qatar on Sunday, the Iraqis failed to qualify for the last leg of the 2010 World Cup qualifying stages. The Iraqi government and soccer federation canceled its soccer team and fired the coach Adnan Haman. Iraq will […]