Blatter to fight EU on foreign players

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Currently, the EU say that imposing quotas - such as a maximum of five foreigners in a team, as Blatter would like to see - would breach laws on employment and free movement of labour.

Blatter believes that stance should be challenged and said: "Football has never had the courage to go against this practice but it must now. When you have 11 foreigners in a team, this is not good for the development of football."

He added: "This is a matter of principle and we need to protect the national identity of the football clubs.

"This has several advantages - it will increase the possibility of players educated in the club to have access to the first team.

"That can have a direct impact, as it will be much cheaper for a club if you have your own educated players.

"The EU say that this is not possible based on free circulation of workers but in football principles are different - footballers are not workers and you must be 11 players not one."