But Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, football's governing body, cites English dominance of the Champions League as proof of the need to restrict how many foreigners a team may field.
Before Bosman, English soccer still allowed quotas on the number of foreigners a team could field, and "free agents" of any nationality who were out of contract still belonged to their clubs, unable to sign elsewhere.
In casting nearly all women, as well as foreigners — her team comes from seven different countries — Travieso is showing a side of Medea that's never been shown, and doing so the weekend of the Women's March on Washington, DC. "There has been a lot of anxiety in our team about the current political climate," says Travieso, "and it's so great to have certain scenes be so cathartic".
It's telling that only a handful of French riders have been recruited by foreign teams, while French teams are stocked with foreigners.
The European Court in 1995 decided that UEFA's rule broke EU law on the free cross-frontier movement of workers; as did an added issue a rule limiting the number of foreigners in any team.
Fukuoka Dome, the titanium-clad sports stadium with its own Cesar Pelli-designed hotel-and-retail complex that Colony bought in Japan, involved negotiating a debt reduction with 42 creditor banks, appeasing the local government and taking a chance that a domestic buyer could be found for the Fukuoka Hawks baseball team (foreigners are not allowed to own sports teams in Japan).
On 16 July 2013, Johnson signed for Bengaluru FC of the Indian I-League, and with Curtis Osano, became the first foreigners in the team's history.
In the Dominican, Aceves said, he was the only foreigner on his team.
The only foreigner in a team of 200 Afghans, she had been based largely in Jalalabad.
The free movement of labour around Europe meant it was no longer legal for football leagues in the EU to limit the number of foreigners in their teams.
