Sepp Blatter says goalline technology will wait
Goal-line talks not on Fifa menu
Posted: 2010-07-19 15:11
Goal-line technology will not be on the agenda when Fifa meet in Wales later this week; contrary to indications by president Sepp Blatter during the World Cup.
The technical sub-committee of the International Football Association Board will meet in Cardiff on Wednesday but, as planned back in May, there will only be one item on the agenda and that will be the continuing experiment with additional assistant referees.
Blatter announced during the World Cup finals that goal-line technology had to be discussed once again at the “first opportunity” and indicated that would take place this month. However, it is not now expected to be on the agenda until a more formal meeting in October.
A Fifa spokesman said: “The meeting this week is purely to ratify any requests that have come forward over the implementation of the assistant referees experiment, which was used last year in the Europa League.
“The first formal meeting where that discussion [goal-line technology] could take place is in October .”
Wednesday’s meeting will instead concentrate on the member associations who have taken up the opportunity to use additional assistant referees after IFAB agreed in May to launch a two-year experiment to test the effectiveness of the initiative.
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