“The EU and football appears as two systems of multilevel governance” (MLG) (García, 2008, p.i). The structure of the EU are similiar to football pyramid and both structures are mix of national and supranational institutions (García, 2008).
Adaptive role of European football after Bosman case
Since Dona and Bosman cases, “the football governing bodies must respect EU law when regulating the game” (García, 2008, p.96). Therefore, football actors like European football institutions required to adopt EU rules. Bosman case has affected European football in many areas. It created new political environment on sport (Parrish, 2001). It essentially developed international organization of …show more content…
Sport has been interpreted as economic activity in order to be regulated in EU’s Single European Market’s rules (Parrish, 2001), though, it was ignored at the first place. Since then, european institutions and organizations have been increasing role in sport. European actors like the ECJ and the EC has became the interesting venue to influence. Since many rules are occupied by EU’s Internal Market competences, the ECJ has became a venue for stakeholders to demand the decisions made at the top of the governing networks of their sports (Geeraert et al., 2013). However, the most visible European institution involved in sport is the ECJ (Parrish, 2001). By court ruling, the ECJ has established significant legal principles governing the application of sport in the Single European Market (Parrish, 2001). Contrary, the Commission seem to avoid confront with sport during Bosman case, until 1999 it released Helsinki Report as the first attempt from the EU to integrate the Single Market and socio-cultural policy in relation to sport involvement (Parrish, …show more content…
From definition of europeanization, europeanization is the adaptive process in domestic arena caused by EU integration, composing top-down, bottom-up and transnational. Additionally, the EU has expanded the influence into European football community. Whilst, EU Single Market provide four free movements of capital, goods, services, persons within member states or specifically, workers relating to European football. The concept of MLG provides area for multi actors from multilevel to participate in decision-making process which the structure of the EU and European football can be describe as MLG or pyramid structure. The Bosman case and international transfer system are upholded as the examples of the EU’s impact on free movement of players in European football. Lastly, MLG outline