La Responsabilidad Civil en la Práctica Deportiva en el Fútbol en Colombia

Abstract

The practice of sports has grown over the years and the human activities carried out in these practices can cause damage to opponents when playing certain sports; These situations must be analyzed from civil liability; On the other hand, athletes are aware that they can cause physical injuries and, therefore, the athlete also assumes the risk of suffering bodily harm.

Now, if we focus on the sports practice of Futbol, it will be possible to understand that various branches of law converge such as: disciplinary law, civil law, criminal law, business law, among other; and this is because there are a number of legal relationships inherent to Futbol or that arise with the practice of this sport, such as the employment contracts that athletes sign with the respective clubs, the purchase and sale of players between the different clubs or the image rights of the soccer players themselves; However, there are gaps in the Colombian legal system where some sporting behaviors in the practice of soccer are not regulated; Such is the case when you are in a sporting contest and a professional soccer player injures another; There is no civil liability borne by the athlete who injures his opponent.

What is evident are the administrative sanctions according to the disciplinary regulations of the Colombian national soccer federation and the international soccer federation (FIFA); but not a Civil Liability, which seeks to repair the damage of the athlete who caused the injury.