FIFA may trial TV replay system next year to challenge referee's decision

FIFA President Sepp Blatter has announced that a TV replay system allowing coaches to challenge a referee's decision may be trialled next year. Speaking via video link at Manchester's Soccerex, the Swiss said that he wanted coaches to be allowed at least one challenge per half. He revealed that the trial could happen at next year's FIFA Under-20 World Cup.

Blatter said that they can try in a youth competition, an Under-20, like next year when they are in New Zealand, and added that it can only be done where there is television coverage of all the matches, The BBC reported. Blatter also confirmed that he would seek re-election as FIFA president in 2015. He said that the on-field referees would have the final say on whether to change their own decision.

The Swiss said that coaches would have the right in the half, twice or once, to challenge a refereeing decision but only when the game is stopped. He added that then, there must be a television monitor but by the television company and not by another referee. And, Blatter also said that then the referee and the coach, they will go then to look, and then the referee may change his mind, as it is the case in tennis, for instance.