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FIFA president Sepp Blatter backs trial of in-game television referral system

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Blatter: My mission is not finished (3:31)

FIFA President Sepp Blatter has announced that he intends to stand for re-election and has explained why he was not surprised that Michel Platini would not be in the running. (3:31)

FIFA president Sepp Blatter wants to trial a television referral system allowing managers to challenge referees' decisions within the next year.

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Blatter -- who has been the head of football's international governing body since 1998 -- plans to hand coaches at least one review per half, and could potentially implement trials in 2015 at the Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand.

Outlining how the system would work, Blatter compared the idea to the challenge system currently used in tennis.

"They have the right in the half, twice or once, to challenge a refereeing decision but only when the game is stopped. Then, there must be a television monitor but by the television company and not by another referee," Blatter said.

"Then the referee and the coach, they will go then to look, and then the referee may change his mind, as it is the case in tennis, for instance."

The 78-year-old also confirmed his desire to run for a fifth term as president. He will officially announce this at FIFA's executive committee meeting later in September, representing an about-turn after announcing at the UEFA Congress in 2011 that his current term would be his last.

Blatter already has the support of five of FIFA's six continental bodies, with only Europe public in their opposition to his re-election.

"You see a mission is never finished -- and my mission is not finished," Blatter said. "I got through the last congress in Sao Paulo not only with the impression but the support of the majority, a huge majority of national associations asking: 'Please go on, be our president also in future.'"

The election will take place at the FIFA congress next June and the deadline for entries is January. UEFA president Michel Platini has said he will not support Blatter but also will not run against him, as he looks to concentrate on governing the European organisation.