FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Monday he wants to start trials on
giving coaches the right to "challenge" referee decisions during a
match.
The system, backed by television monitors, could be tried at the
Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand next year and Blatter said he would
like to find a national league to test the challenge.
Blatter first raised the idea at the FIFA congress in June but he told
the Soccerex conference in Manchester he would now propose the move to
the International Board, football's lawmaking body.
He wants "coaches or team managers (to) have the right in the half,
twice or once, to have a call to challenge a refereeing decision but
only when the game has stopped."
"Then there must be a monitor by the television company, then the
referee and coach look at it and the referee may then change his mind
as is the case in tennis for instance," Blatter said.
"Hopefully we can find a league, semi-professional or professional,
that will try to do it," he added.
"It can only be done where there is television coverage of all the
matches, or in one of FIFA's competitions, a youth competition in
FIFA, an Under-20 like next year we are in New Zealand so we could
test such a 'challenge calls.
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