August 9 – Bayern Munich coach Louis van Gaal (pictured) has criticised FIFA President Sepp Blatter for not opening up to the use of technology in football.
Van Gaal has long been a fan of using technology to clear up borderline decisions and he would like to see its introduction to avoid a repeat of the controversies at the World Cup.
However, the former Dutch and Barcelona coach fears video replays and other methods of taking human error out of football will never be employed as long as Blatter is at the helm of FIFA.
“It is incredible – Blatter said at the World Cup that the issue would be on the table and now it has disappeared again,” he told German magazine, kicker.
“That is his strategy, but it is not fair play.”
Van Gaal has called for an overhaul at FIFA to bring them in line with modern football and he slammed the International Football Association Board, that body that determines the laws of the game and which is made up of the United Kingdom’s pioneering football associations - the Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales and the Irish Football Association - and FIFA.
“He [Blatter] is old-fashioned,” he added.
“It is a commission full of old men.
“It is not transparent.
“We don’t know which men are behind it.
“In a world of transparency, we really should know this.”
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