ILO guidelines on pro athlete pay and conditions could impact football’s sustainable ambitions

March 20 – Football’s biggest annual cost at the professional level anywhere in the world is the paying of its players. The game’s biggest, and endless, challenge is finding the balance that makes the sport sustainable on a professional level.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) earlier this month published its first guidelines aimed at promoting fundamental labour rights for professional athletes worldwide.

Under the title ‘Guidelines on the promotion of fundamental principles...