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A professional football league will experiment with using additional assistant referees behind each goal next season.
UEFA president Michel Platini said the latest move by IFAB would ensure the rule changes are part of football by the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine. For that to happen, IFAB would have to approve the change at its 125th meeting in March 2011.
It’s starting to look like there could be a couple of major changes ahead of the next Olympics after UEFA declared it’s support of FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s comments regarding over-age players and a possible lowering of the current U-23 age limit.
UPDATE - Real Madrid has chosen to register Lassana Diarra over Klass - Jan Huntelaar for the Champions League knockout stages starting with Liverpool at the Sanitago Bernabeu on February 25th and the return leg scheduled for Anfield on March 10th.
Real Madrid have had their hopes for registering both new signings Klass - Jan Huntelaar and Lassana Diarra for the Champions League Knock - Out Stages dashed after Uefa Spokesman Willard Gaillard confirmed only one would be made available because both had played for Ajax and Portsmouth respectively in the Uefa Cup.
After dropping two assists during AC Milan’s 3 - 0 win over Lazio, Carlo Ancelotti and AC Milan included the 33 year old on their 25 man UEFA Cup squad despite being only technically eligible for the February 18th and 26th matches against Werder Bremen.
UPDATE - Looks as if earlier reports of Beckham being left off of Milan’s UEFA roster were incorrect and the official decision will be made following their Sunday afternoon match against Lazio by midnight.
Ancelotti told the club’s Web site, “The delivery of the UEFA list is tomorrow night at midnight. Beckham’s eventual insertion in the list is up to us to decide and will not be forced on us.”
In a big indication as to whether he will or will not be moving permanently to Milan, Carlo Ancelotti has left David Beckham off of the Rossoneri’s UEFA Cup squad roster.
AC Milan will have another difficult decision to make at the end of the month concerning whether to add David Beckham to the UEFA Cup roster ahead of their February 18th / 19th UEFA Cup Round of 32 first leg match against Bundesliga side Werder Bremen.
Not the result Milan should be getting at the San Siro.
Onyewu scores in Standard Liege’s 3-0 win over Sampdoria.
