Blatter: Quota plan good for football

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has admitted his organisation’s attempt to impose quotas for homegrown players on clubs is “against one of the principals of European Union law”.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has admitted his organisation’s attempt to impose quotas for homegrown players on clubs is “against one of the principals of European Union law”.

But despite seeing the proposal, which would limit clubs to five foreign players, flounder on the EU’s insistence on free movement of labour around its member states, Blatter is adamant he will not give up his campaign.

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