SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Congress passed a fiscal responsibility law for football clubs on Monday, slightly watering down one presented by the president in March but preserving enough of the original to satisfy the country's biggest players union.
"This is undeniably a victory," Common Sense FC, a union of more than 1000 players who lobbied hard for the bill, said on Twitter after it passed the Senate.
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