UEFA plans teenage transfer crackdown - report

LONDON (AFP) — Europe's top football clubs will be barred from snapping up the game's most talented teenagers if plans outlined in a leaked UEFA document go ahead, it was reported on Sunday.

UEFA boss Michel Platini has handed over a confidential 10-page document to European Union ministers, urging Brussels to support the plan, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper claimed.

The measures include a ban on under-18 transfers, a quota for foreign players as well as limiting live TV broadcasts in an attempt to boost attendances.

The newspaper added the document had been drawn up with input from European federations representing football, rugby union, handball, basketball, ice hockey and volleyball.

Under the new proposals, recent transfers such as that of Aaron Ramsey, 17, to Arsenal and 16-year-old John Bostock to Spurs would be outlawed.

The far-reaching document was supported by Bayern Munich club president Karl-Heinz ...