Sporters have far more rights if they appear in a civil court than at a sport tribunal such as the CAS. This is the opinion of doping experts Lucien Valloni and Alessandro Celli. They argue for changes in the judicial system of the CAS and for the introdu

CAS needs to introduce faster procedures to prevent situations such as FC Sion’s from happening. That is the opinion of Lucien Valloni, president of the Swiss professional footballers’ association SAFP.

Lucien Valloni, president of the Swiss footballers' association on the FC Sion case: ‘It is now clear that the image of Swiss football has suffered in the eyes of the football world, and in practice Swiss football as a whole has been affected.'

FIFPro waits with great interest for the judgement of the CAS in the case that LaShwan Merritt has started at the highest sports tribunal in Switzerland, and expects that the CAS will decide in favour of the American athlete.

FIFPro Division Americas has taken decisions concerning CAS, Paraguay, Mexico and the FIFPro Tournament during its successful general assembly, organized in Lima, Peru, on March 1, 2 and 3.