Should CONCACAF BECOME LIKE THE EU?

[DANNO49]

Should the CONCACAF become like the EU? By this I mean that Concacaf players playing in a Concacaf country would not count against the foreign player cap. I mean of course that they would have to get a work permit for the country they are playing in ie. Fredy Adu playing for Club America would not count as a foreign player or Carlos Ruiz playing for the Galaxy would not count as a foreign player. :)

[Ricky_DCU]

I don't really see any reason for that- and reasons for it in the EU have nothing to do with soccer. It's an EU labor law and they simply apply it to soccer "laborers" like every other industry.

[MoRado]

This is a stupid idea....Concacaf and Europe are completely different on sports, industry, economy...everything

[Mel Brennan]

This is a stupid idea....Concacaf and Europe are completely different on sports, industry, economy...everything

Well...no. To say that labour migration discussion in the CONCACAF region, given NAFTA, GATT, and the various and sundry individual agreements made between OAS, OCS, and the various economic powers within CONCACAF, and how that has affected labour migration, is stupid is, well, stupid in and of itself.

The fact is that relative to macro labour migration policy, and especially in terms of both regions' deference to WTO standards, rules, laws and exceptions as determined in Geneva (e.g., 11 U.S. laws changed by the WTO), those regions are becoming very similar; as a result, it becomes worth some analysis as to whether or not CONCACAF should, for once, be pro-active, and concieve of policy that is prepared to address these issues before they are being crushed by such issues...