Régimen legal de contratación de jugadores profesionales de fútbol en el Ecuador y sus causas de terminación.

Abstract

In Ecuador, professional soccer athletes were incorporated into the sphere of protection of labor law, which established the existence of a contractual relationship between sportsmen and sports contracting entities. However, there are frequent cases of breach of contractual obligations by sports clubs to professional football players, which has set an unfavorable state for football as a sports institution. To remedy this situation national and international legislation has provided certain restrictions and requirements imposed on sports clubs from a legal point of view, to the extent that the working conditions of the players are embodied in a contractual instrument as a guarantee that they do not violate the Rights of the players. In this sense, the legal tools necessary to assert their rights in the contractual and labor field have been made available to sports workers, in order to reduce the possible abuses that the sports entities have incurred as employers. However, this regulatory framework has not been sufficient to avoid contractual and labor breaches by contracting sports entities.