Video replays would kill the game - Platini

Using video replays during games would kill the flow of football matches and end traditional refereeing forever, UEFA president Michel Platini warned.

However, Platini backed plans for extra goalmouth officials, an idea which the world ruling body FIFA is to experiment with at the Club World Cup in Japan in December.

The head of European soccer's governing body - who championed the new initiative when chairing this week's meeting of FIFA's new Strategic Committee - made it clear he opposed the use of video evidence.

"Video referees would destroy football," Platini said.

"If we had this, in 10 years' time, we would no longer have any referees, refereeing would be over forever and we would have to use a video," he said.

"Video is a big problem for me. You would have to stop the game every 10 seconds, for every decision that is questioned.

"Football is a human game and the mistakes are human. We need to help solve the mistakes, but we must not lose the human feeling of our sport," Platini added.

Platini was in favour of adding match officials to the key areas of the pitch.

"We need to help referees to stop making mistakes and these two extra referees will focus on the two 18-yard boxes, so this will help solve the problem. Ten eyes are certainly better than six."

The Club World Cup in Japan will also be used to continue tests on goal-line technology developed by ball manufacturer adidas, using a chip in the match ball to determine whether shots had crossed the line.