'This is a historic step for football and football players in Switzerland’, said a very content president Lucien Valloni, after the Swiss players union SAFP came to a principle agreement with the Swiss Football League.

The Hungarian players’ union HLSZ hosted this year’s FIFPro general assembly in Budapest. Gábor Horváth, the secretary general of HLSZ, looks back at the well organized congress.

‘Obviously people have made an awful lot of money out of being football agents over the last few years.’ In the last year the twenty clubs from the English Premier League have spent almost 80 million euro on fees for players’ agents.

With five new candidate members and nine observers FIFPro welcomed a lot of new unions at its congress in Budapest, Hungary.

The European Commission has awarded FIFPro a grant for its FIFPro Online Academy. Over a period of 16 months the world players’ union will receive a subsidy for almost 80 percent of the entire costs of this project.