UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has brushed off some of Marco van Basten's radical proposals to transform the game. Ceferin, elected as European football's top administrator last September, claims there is no need for world governing body FIFA to "revolutionise" football. Van Basten, the former Holland forward now serving as FIFA's technical director, recently suggested a series of rule changes. The more eye-catching included scrapping offside, introducing sinbins, bringing in orange cards and replacing penalty shoot-outs with eight-second run-ups. "We don't need to revolutionise the game; it's fantastic as it is. Offside is an important part," Ceferin told Die Welt. "You know, I didn't come here so that everyone says, 'Ceferin changed this and that, he was very important'. Why should we change the most beautiful game in the world? "Hearing all these suggestions, we can only hope that FIFA leaves us the ball. Or at least that the ball remains round." Asked about the shoot-out suggestion, Ceferin said: "For me that's a joke," and was similarly unimpressed with the sinbin idea. "Also a joke," he added. One change that has been made by FIFA is for the World Cup to be expanded...
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