Angelo Rigopoulos

Experience

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  EuropeanSportService.com

  Feb 2007 - Jan 2010

  Legal Sports Advisor

  · Advising football clubs and young athletes on labour contract & FIFA/FIGC regulations · Reporting and reviewing CAS decisions, FIFA regulations and Italian legislation · Supporting and advising candidates on the FIFA Players' Agents License examination · Reviewing and approving articles of the 8 editors · Selling advertising space on the website

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  FIFA

  Aug 2010 - Jan 2013

  Legal Counsel

  Players' Status Department· Giving written and/or oral advice on the regulations as well as on general legal issues to players, clubs, member associations, agents, legal advisors, etc. · Editing player status judgments/decisions as well as answers or petitions to the Court of Arbitration for Sport · Revising transfer and employment litigations that are submitted to the FIFA competent bodies · Interpreting representation contracts between players/clubs and agents · Drafting and edits the circular letters to the member associations · Preparing and mediating at conciliatory meetings · Supporting the amendment and editing of regulations; Show less

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  UEFA

  Aug 2010 - now

  - Providing assistance in solving problems within UEFA member associations especially in cases of undue state/political/governmental interference in football affairs and advices UEFA member associations in internal affairs (including, in particular, governance and statutory matters)- Dealing with any governance related matter related to all 55 UEFA member associations- Dealing with potential suspension of UEFA member associations- Providing assistance in internal affairs and reviewing the Statutes of the UEFA members associations- Acting as administrator of the National Associations Committee;- Supervising the annual distribution of the solidarity payments for club youth development to all UEFA members associations;- Implementing at national level the Autonomous Agreement on minimum requirements for standard professional football player contracts as agreed in 2012 by UEFA, ECA, EPFL and FIFPro Division Europe; Show less Providing legal advice to UEFA and its member associations on statutory and regulatory matters. Providing legal advice on the drafting, amendment and interpretation of UEFA statutes and regulations. • Analysing football-related issues and advising UEFA, its member associations and other parties (e.g. FIFA) accordingly;• Providing legal advice on UEFA's statutes and regulations and those of its member associations;• Implementing basic legal principles in the drafting of UEFA's legal framework;• Studying and analysing national laws affecting sport in general and football in particular in various European countries;• Maintaining the library of the Legal Affairs Division;• Providing support on legal matters related to UEFA's approval of international friendly matches, tournaments and match agents;• Providing legal support in issues related to the application of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (after consultation with FIFA);• Providing legal support for the UEFA Congress, UEFA Executive Committee meetings, UEFA Emergency Panel decisions and meetings of the UEFA Legal Committee and the UEFA Players' Status, Transfer and Agents and Match Agents Committee;• Following and analysing the case law of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in football-related cases (especially those involving UEFA);• Organising meetings with all stakeholders (ECA, EPFL and FIFPro) in order to implement the minimum requirements for standard player contract (Social Dialogue) at domestic level. Show less

  • Managing Director of Integrity & Regulatory

    Sept 2018 - now

  • Head of National Associations Governance

    Feb 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Legal Counsel

    Aug 2010 - Jan 2017
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  World Triathlon

  Dec 2020 - now

  Member of the World Triathlon Tribunal