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| FIFA are planning changes to rules on third-party ownership of players as a result of the Carlos Tevez case. The Argentina striker was the centre of a protracted legal row after he signed for West Ham last season with a number of third-party agreements which gave certain rights to Media Sports Investment, the company that held his registration. Those agreements contravened Premier League rules and FIFA are now to work on changes to their worldwide transfer regulations. The Tevez case was raised at FIFA's strategic committee meeting, where it was also decided to have additional assistant referees at the Club World Cup in Japan in November. The trial, with the assistants stationed by the goal, will be run at the same time as a further experiment of goal-line technology using a microchip-in-ball system developed by adidas and Cairos. FIFA said in a statement: "As a result of the Tevez case, immediate action was also called for as regards third-party ownership of players. "The FIFA administration is working on a simple and effective solution as part of the transfer regulations that will be submitted to the world governing body's legal committee." It added: "FIFA's intention is to conduct two trials at the Club World Cup in Japan: the first relating to goal-line technology with a new trial of the adidas and Cairos chip-in-ball technology, and the second to the use of two additional assistant referees during matches." |