“FIFA’s sports arbitration clauses are mandatory,” the European court said in summarizing the opinion by Advocate General ...

Now the name of the president appointed by the CAS of Lausanne is also known: the Luxembourger Jacques Radoux, a former tennis player, Davis Cup captain for the Luxembourg team from 2008 to 2013 ...

The same European court in Luxembourg has in the last 14 months ... CAS verdicts can be challenged at Switzerland’s supreme court in Lausanne on limited procedural grounds and are rarely overturned.