Why Unión get nearly €400,000 for Domina but nothing for Calderón? | OneFootball

On the first morning of the radio show, we exclusively spoke with the renowned lawyer specializing in sports law regarding the situation of Domina, who will become a free agent starting January 1, 2026, and has already signed a pre-contract with Cádiz of Spain. How does this affect Unión's economy concerning future transfers of the player?

Well, the situation, you were telling me that Calderón was 24 years old when he left and Domina is 19. Exactly.

Of course, that's where the difference in treatment begins. Basically, FIFA created two mechanisms to compensate the training clubs, when? When the player signs their first professional contract, there always has to be an international note for the FIFA regulations to apply. If it's internal, we apply law 27211, but since it's international, in the two cases you mentioned, one in Chile and another in Spain, we have to apply FIFA regulations. So, FIFA regulations talk about training compensation, the first employment contract, and there's an amount related to some tables FIFA has, according to the club's categorization, where the player is going, which now are the concrete numbers regarding the charge.

And the other is the solidarity mechanism, which is the most known. Every time there's a transfer or an international loan, 5% of the paid amount is distributed among the training clubs from ages 12 to 23. Well, in both cases, Calderón and Domina, we are dealing with training compensation, because it would be the first contract, even if they already had one with Unión, but the next contract. The second one.

Of course, the second is the next one, because when they sign the first one, it benefits all the previous clubs in FIFA, starting from age 12.

It's very clear what you're saying, so that's where all the training that Unión will receive comes in.

So, since the first contract is with Unión, we have to see the next club, which will have to compensate Unión for the entire period they trained Domina. As for Calderón, it wasn't charged because this training compensation is for contracts signed up to age 23. Since Calderón was 24, he was outside of this, and since he was free, there was no price, it wasn't paid either, well, there was no mechanism because he went from Unión, so that's why Calderón wasn't charged anything.

This case, no, yes, of course, because he is 19. So, based on the fact that Cádiz is a second division club in Spain, due to this categorization I mentioned that FIFA has in its tables, it's a second category in UEFA, UEFA can be divided by the different confederations, CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, UEFA. Well, in UEFA, a second category club, as would be the case of Cádiz, would have to pay, for each year of training, from 12 to 15 years, 10,000 euros per year, and from 16 to 21, it's 60,000 per year.

Here, since it's only up to 19, let's assume they are fully 19, to make round numbers, this has to be looked at carefully each day, but well, in principle, from 12 to 15 you have 4 years, 12, 13, 14, 15, so there are 40,000 euros there. And then, starting from 16, it's 60 per year, 16, 17, 18, 19, you have 4 years. 4 times 60, plus the 40 we had before, 280. So, reasonably, Unión will collect 280, not 400. And obviously, it's not that Cádiz signs (5:01) and gets that money, no.

It's an entire procedure that exists in FIFA, which is the best-case scenario, because it's an imperative procedure that FIFA does, they put you in a scheme they have, an entire system, and you really don't see the money.

Yes, look, FIFA allows you to waive this right. Well, by national law, national law strictly prohibits waiving it. Precisely so that clubs don't feel pressured by the training club, but FIFA can waive it.

Of course, then Cádiz sells, transfers him, as you said, to Madrid, for 5 million dollars, any number, 10 million dollars, well. Then Unión will collect, but through the other mechanism, the solidarity mechanism.

Which are two different things, exactly. Two different things. So, what percentage corresponds? Well, from 12 to 15 years it's 0.25 of the transfer price, and from 16 to 23 it's 0.50.

So in Unión's case, round numbers, right? You would have from 12 to 15, at 0.25 each year you have 1%. Then you have 16, 17, 18, 19, you have 4 years at 0.50 for each year. So you add it all up and you would have 3% of the transfer price.

Was it 10 million? Done. Then you will collect 300,000, right? If my math isn't wrong. Yes, I think so.

No, no, the thing is like this, FIFA allows you, (8:16) because surely they weren't so clumsy as to have signed it with today's or tomorrow's date. Right.

Set with a date starting January 1. January, of course. And what FIFA allows is that when we are in the window of the last 6 months of the employment contract duration, the player can freely negotiate a future contract.

So if logically they signed it with a date starting January 1, there would be no FIFA penalty, because it was done according to regulations. Beyond that within the employment relationship between Domina and Unión, they may have fulfilled some of their obligations. Then the club might impose some labor sanction, which would have to be seen if Unión has an internal discipline regime, I don't know if there would be a financial penalty or not, I don't know.

It has to be seen internally. If it were, Unión would have to impose it on the player, within the employment relationship with Unión.

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