Football clubs around the world have been offered their own version of Major League Baseball's winter meetings to make trade deals under the same roof.
The inaugural Globe Soccer conference launched on Friday will be staged in Dubai on Jan. 4 _ at the start of the monthlong, midseason transfer window for clubs in Europe.
Organizers hope their event will meet the needs the clubs, players and agents when most of Europe's leagues shut down for a winter break.
"What the media is looking for from us is 'Beckham going to Milan,' and similar events," Globe Soccer founder Enrico Bondoni said through a translator.
Bondoni said the event is supported by FIFA, which is working to eliminate rogue agents from the annual billion-dollar business of transfers.
Football's global governing body is creating an online monitoring system to record the flow of money to all parties involved in a deal.
Rob Jansen, representing the European Football Agents' Association, said unlicensed middlemen had given honest agents a bad reputation.
"We need a place where operators can come together on a fixed date every year," Jansen said. "It is the creation of transparency in the transfer market, both financially and legally."
Dubai already is a popular training base for Italian and German teams playing friendly matches each January.
"This conference is a big opportunity for other clubs to come and discuss the perfect deal for both sides," said Rashid Al-Kamali, marketing director for Dubai Sports Council.
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