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The newly formed European Club Association (ECA) is ready to challenge Fifa over plans to restrict the number of foreign players allowed at a club.
Plans would see managers forced to field six players in the starting line-up who could play for the country of the league's origin.
But clubs are opposed and could be more inclined to accept Uefa's policy.
Uefa wants a system which would allow players to play for a club if they were developed in that country, regardless of their nationality.
Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has been appointed as the chairman of the ECA with Joan Laporta, the Barcelona president, also involved.
He has refused to step down as president of the Catalan club despite losing a vote of confidence in his role.
The ECA has representatives from England and Scotland in the form of Liverpool's Rick Parry, Chelsea's Peter Kenyon and Rangers' John McClelland.
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21 October 2010
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