Bosman: A grassroots player who changed the commercial order of football

 In the development of the football world, there is a name that is not as shining as Pele and Maradona on the green field, but like a stone thrown into a calm lake, it has stirred up layers of ripples and profoundly changed the commercial landscape of football. He is Jean-Marc Bosman. Bosman is an ordinary Belgian football player. His career is not brilliant. He has not shined in the top leagues and has never won dazzling personal honors. In the summer of 1990, Bosman, who played for RFC Liege in the Belgian First Division, ushered in a turning point in his career. At the end of the season, his contract with the original club expired, and the club was preparing to cut his annual salary by 60%. This sudden salary cut was difficult for Bosman to accept. He was eager to seek new development opportunities, so he hoped to transfer to the Dunkirk Club in France. However, under the old transfer system at the time, even if the player's contract expired, other clubs had to pay a transfer fee to the original club if they wanted to introduce him. In order to stop Bosman's transfer, the Liege club offered a high transfer fee that the Dunkirk club could not afford, which made Bosman's transfer plan fall through and he fell into the dilemma of having no ball to play.

Faced with this unfair treatment, Bosman did not choose to endure it silently. After receiving legal advice, he resolutely sued the Liege team and the Belgian Football Association in August of that year. In November, a local court in Belgium ruled that Bosman's transfer was legal and the Belgian Football Association lost the case. But half a year later, the Belgian Court of Appeal ruled to dismiss the appeal. In January 1992, Bosman's application for unemployment benefits from the government was rejected. Angrily, he took the case to the European Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, claiming $1 million. He believed that the club's refusal to let him transfer violated the EU's "Treaty of Rome on the right of citizens of EU countries to freely choose their place of residence and free choice of employment", and at the same time asked the EU to order UEFA to lift restrictions on non-EU players because he felt that such restrictions were essentially a form of racial discrimination.

This long lawsuit lasted for several years, during which Bosman was under tremendous pressure. He not only faced financial difficulties, because no team was willing to accept him, he lost his source of income; he also suffered from doubts and accusations from the outside world, and many people believed that he was challenging the traditional order of the football world. But Bosman always stood firm in his position and did not back down. Finally, on December 15, 1995, the European Court of Justice made a ruling in favor of Bosman, and the historic Bosman Act was born.

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