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MADRID - The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday dismissed Barcelonas appeal and upheld a transfer ban that FIFA imposed on the club for breaking rules on registering minors as youth players.Barcelona had breached the rules regarding the protection of minors and the registration of minors attending football academies, CAS said in a statement.The ruling means Barcelona will be barred from signing any players in 2015, although it can still renew existing contracts, fire players and recall those loaned to other clubs, such as Denis Suarez and Gerard Deulofeu, both at Sevilla.CAS also upheld a fine of 450,000 Swiss francs ($455,000) imposed against Barcelona.FIFA said CAS had shown clear and strong support for FIFAs efforts to protect underage players.The club said in a statement it totally disagreed with the ruling and considered the sanction completely disproportionate.It said the club understood and supported FIFAs protection for minors policy and insisted it had acted correctly.Barcelonas youth structure has enabled hundreds of young players to achieve their dreams, the club said.Barcelona said it was evaluating legal options, including appealing the decision to the Swiss Federal Court.A gross injustice has been committed, Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu said. Priority has been given to a poorly-conceived rule rather than to its spirit.The club is renowned for training and educating young players such as Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta at its La Masia academy.FIFA exerts rigid control over transferring minors across international borders. In Feb. 2013, FIFA found that Barcelona had violated those regulations when it signed 10 players under the age of 18 to its academy.It was that finding that Barcelona appealed. The club now has 90 days to regularize the situation of all minor players affected by the ruling.The international transfer of players under the age of 18 can only go through if their parents move to the country for non-football reasons.Players between 16 and 18 can move within Europe if certain standards of education and living conditions are met.Barcelona has always argued that La Masia fulfilled the most stringent requirements.Spains league called La Masia a world-class example and said it was conducting a review into how Spains legislation might be at odds with FIFAs regulations and those applied elsewhere in the European Union.The league said in a statement that based on its conclusions it would consider making an official complaint to the competent EU bodies about FIFAs regulations governing transfers of minors.The concept of a youth training centre was first proposed to Barcelona by Johan Cruyff, who graduated from a similar program at Ajax, and La Masia was opened in 1979.Located away from the Nou Camp, it is a boarding school where academic learning is combined with physical training for talented young players. 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Hilliard scored a career-high 26 points and No. Eli Harold Jersey .C. -- After a listless first half, the Washington Wizards used a big third quarter run to beat the Charlotte Bobcats Bradley Beal scored 21 points and the Wizards used a 17-0 run in the third quarter to take control of what had been a close game and beat the Bobcats 97-83 on Tuesday night.Last year Ferrari qualified 1.4s slower than Mercedes around Melbourne. This time Ferrari qualified within 0.8s of the Mercedes pole time. Furthermore, last year Albert Park was the furthest off the pace Ferrari qualified all year (when expressed as a percentage). Although race two of 2015 was in Malaysia (placed much later in the 2016 calendar), at race three in Bahrain, the Ferrari qualifying deficit to Mercedes was down to 0.905s.Essentially, the Ferrari was around 0.5s per lap more competitive in Bahrain qualifying than it had been in Australia. If (an important if) the switch of tracks finds the same benefit for Ferrari this time around, it would suggest a Mercedes qualifying advantage in Bahrain of no more than 0.3s. Different season, different cars, but the patterns and traits of performance between the two cars does seem quite similar this year to last. The Mercedes advantage over Ferrari does appear to be bigger on Saturday than Sunday and it does partly seem related to how potent its qualifying engine mode is and partly to the Ferraris struggles to generate front tyre temperature early in a single lap. A Ferrari that can get to within 0.3s of a Mercedes in qualifying might very well be able to match its pace on race day.Until the red flag stoppage at Melbourne, Sebastian Vettel was of course leading for Ferrari and might have been expected to have won but for Alonsos race-stopping crash. But Vettels place had everything to do with the track positioning bought by his superb start and the mediocre ones of the Mercs.The comparison was further clouded by the different tyre choices made by each team during the race. Take these things out of the picture and it did appear that the Mercedes retained a performance advantage on race day - but by a smaller amount than in qualifying. Just like last year. Sebastian Vettel (left) led the Australian Grand Prix until the red flag There is potentially another similarity too. Last year, Ferrari ran their power units quite conservatively in Melbourne. But from Malaysia onwards through Bahrain and China, they felt confident enough to turn them up - and in those races they were at least on a par with Mercedes for race day horsepower, possibly even slightly ahead (this was before the Spain clarification on fuel flow interpretation).In Melbourne this year, Ferrari again was carefully managing their power units during the race. Kimi Raikkonen in particular could be observed varying the amount of electrical deployment, according to how defensive he needed to be.Something was giving Ferrari concern about being able to run with full deployment for extended periods. Its possible this was connected to Raikkonens turbo issues that subsequently forced him to retire, but Mercedes engineers looking at the numbers suspect that Ferrari were running their engines less aggressively than in Barcelona testing. Kimi Raikkonen had to retire his Ferrari on lap 23 of the Australian GP, after suffering a fire in his airbox If this was related to a specific reliability worry Ferrari had over a component and it can be resolved by the next race, then a return to full power in Bahrain could well be enough to allow Ferrari to fight Mercedes on pure performance - on race day at least.ddddddddddddBut longer term, a major focus of Ferraris attention will be on matching the power Mercedes have available for short bursts during qualifying. These extra engine modes are extremely potent and Mercedes development work during the winter - centred around extending the duration of combustion, thereby moving the detonation threshold yet further back, allowing more power for longer - has allowed them to become even more so.More than ever in the hybrid era, such developments have to be made jointly with the engine department, the fuel supplier and spark plug manufacturer. Although Ferrari appear to have a car capable of racing the Mercs, a breakthrough in qualifying performance is going to be needed before the Scuderia can control their races from the front, rather than relying on better starts or strategy to get them there. Nico Rosberg (left) won in Melbourne despite a poor start Yet even if they fail to make that step change this year, if they can regularly challenge the silver arrows, the respective dynamics of the driver line-ups of each team might yet offer Ferrari a realistic hope of stealing the title. Vettel is much more clearly a team No 1 than either of the Mercedes drivers. If - as happened in both 2014 and 15 - Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg takes points from each other while Vettel consistently finishes ahead of Raikkonen, it could be the crucial differentiator.Last year the Ferrari wasnt quite fast enough to make that matter. This year, it just might be.Dont miss the F1 Report for all the reaction and analysis from the Australian GP. 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