(April 18, 2019) – Major League Soccer club academies were launched in 2007 with the primary objective of producing top homegrown talent to contribute meaningfully to MLS first teams. During the past ...

Training programs conducted during regular working hours constitute work time and must be compensated as such, according to the Fair Labor Standards Act. (Work time includes all time an employee must ...

Compensation is a critical element of employee engagement, retention, and overall satisfaction. Empowering managers and employees with the right knowledge, visibility, and tools to understand, and ...

Fifa, through its Regulations on the Status and Transfer Players Regulations (RSTP), came up with ways of ensuring that training clubs are rewarded for their efforts and investments in developing ...

After its initial hearing with U.S. Soccer about cleaning up the game, the U.S. Senate turned its attention to American youth clubs’ quest for solidarity payments this week. U.S. Soccer had not ...

MLS is taking another step toward integrating itself with the rest of the football world, in large part to avoid being taking advantage of by it. The league’s academies, which started out as little ...