Licencias deportivas y menores: el derecho de retención y su (in)compatibilidad con el régimen de protección jurídica del menor.

The right of retention of football clubs over minors has been traditionally sorrounded by a strong polemic from the legal point of view. This is explained as a result of the debate on the legal nature of the federative license, which, although it is an administrative authorization, the sports sector has also tended to perceive it as a private contract. If we add to the fact that the regulations of the Football Federations only allows the clubs to process the cancellation of the license, we are faced with a scheme made in such a way that the minor player will always need the agreement of the club to disassociate from it. This approach, however, shakes the foundations of the legal framework for the protection of minors in convergence with the right of association. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]