Football: UEFA will not change rules

FIFpro says that Uefa had rejected their plea for leniency for the six Chelsea and Bayern Munich players

BERNE: Uefa has ruled out changing its Champions League suspension rules regarding yellow cards for at least three years and has no intention of bringing them in line with the rules used in the European Championship, officials have told players’ representatives. FIFpro, the international players’ union, said in a statement that Uefa had rejected their plea for leniency for the six Chelsea and Bayern Munich players who picked up a third yellow card in last week’s Champions League semi-finals. The decision means that Branislav Ivanovic, Ramires and Raul Meireles of Chelsea and Luiz Gustavo, David Alaba and Holger Badstuber of Bayern will all miss the final in Munich on May 19.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 3^rd, 2012.