Gonçalo Almeida

Following is degree and registration with the Portuguese Bar Association (later on also with the Brazilian Bar Association), completed the first edition of CIES International Master (MA) in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport in 2001, having immediately joined FIFA Players’ Status department in Zurich, where dealt with Football Law during nearly four and a half years.

Following such most enriching experience, founded “Almeida, Dias & Associados” in 2008, a Law Firm with a diversified and highly experienced working team, currently spread through five offices in four different countries (www.ada-legal.com), having dedicated almost exclusively to Sports (mainly at an international level and particularly before FIFA and CAS) and Immigration Law.