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Date: 03/12/2019 | Ref. 823283
Press Eye Northern Ireland
Tuesday 3rd December 2019
Picture by William Cherry / Press Eye
The International Football Association Board (IFAB) held its Annual Business Meeting in Belfast today. At the meeting in the Grand Central Hotel, which was chaired by Irish FA chief executive Patrick Nelson, footballs lawmakers held detailed discussions on concussion, improving player behaviour and tweaks to VAR (video assistant referees). Among the attendees was former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who was attending his first IFAB meeting since his appointment as FIFA's new Chief of Global Football Development. Wenger is also a member of IFAB's football and technical advisory panels.
The 2020 AGM of The IFAB will be held in Belfast on 29 February next year and will ultimately decide which of todays proposals and recommendations will become part of the laws of the game as from 1 June 2020.
