Contrato de trabalho do jogador profissional de futebol: evolução histórica do futebol, disposições contratuais e peculiaridades

Abstract

Considering The present work aims to understand the football player's employment contract, both base and professional, and clarify its peculiarities. There is still a very big doubt about the contract of soccer players, since it is not only the CLT that governs and has the rules about the employment contract in soccer. Law 9.615/98, also called Lei Pelé, is the main device that deals with football in Brazil, where the present work seeks to compare the rules of the CLT with the Pelé Law so that there is a greater understanding about this other type of contract. of work. The construction of the work began with a historical analysis of football in Brazil, from its arrival to the creation of organizational devices for football in the country, and after this contextualization, the work begins to actually enter into the subject in the player's employment contract. of football. The objective of the academic work is to discuss about the history of football in Brazil until the constitutionalization of football, with the creation of laws and specifications for this sport. It also seeks to analyze the contract of the professional football player and the rights that athletes from the base categories have. The research was carried out through doctrinal, jurisprudential and legal means on what the employment contract of soccer players provides. The conclusion is that there are many differences between the standard employment contract and the contract for soccer players, from its creation to today's laws, in which greater care is needed with the application of CLT and Lei Pelé norms for employment contracts. soccer players.