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FIFA Player Quota Plan

A story has come out of Brussels that FIFA, has a plan to implement a quota limiting the number of foreign players that could play at any one time. The plan that is on the table would force teams to play 6 players who could take the field for the national team. That would let 5 foreign players take the pitch. What the rule doesn't do is limit the number of foreign players you could have on the team.

Not sure what FIFA is trying to accomplish with this new rule. The best players in the world want to play at the biggest clubs and in the best leagues. Some countries don't have strong domestic leagues and therefore those players travel to play in England, Italy or Spain, where the competition is better. The only positive that could come out of this rule would be that domestic leagues would have more parity as the larger clubs wouldn't be able to field teams of 11 international superstars.

There is opposition to this proposal and it will be interesting to follow this and see if Sepp Blatter can get this passed FIFA and then the European Union.