French Online Gambling Rules Upset Soccer Team

Olympique Lyonnais, a french soccer team is upset with the French national government for it’s continual failure to comply with the European Union regulations when it comes to online gambling. The Lyon team wants to accept online gambling sponsors but the French law continues to discriminate against foreign online gambling operators that are not licensed by the French government. French teams are concerned because they cannot accept advertising from any online gambling operators while their opponents from the UK and other European nations are sponsored by online sportsbooks and other prominent online gambling operators.

One of their opponents, Real Madrid has wore shirts that bore the bWin brand. This sponsor has
brought the team a lot of extra cash. This puts the French teams at a competitive disadvantage
because they are unable to acquire the sponsors that help them purchase equipment, etc.

“Olympique Lyonnais is now faced with the fact that we cannot display our sponsors logo this
Wednesday in Madrid, in a country which legally allows this type of publicity, and during a
match where the main competitor of BetClic will appear on the shirts of Real Madrid!”
read a statement that was released by the Olympique Lyonnais team in France. New french
regulations are being written but the legislators want to protect their gambling monopoly
and continue to restrict foreign online gambling operators from accepting French players.