Players can make two moves in a year

Soccer players will be allowed to make two moves in a single calendar year, the world governing body FIFA announced on Sunday.

Following a two-day FIFA executive meeting, president Sepp Blatter said a player could be loaned to two different clubs in succession during a season if he had only trained and not played in any matches for his original club between loans.

FIFA also announced on Sunday that it had agreed to create a special insurance fund to compensate national associations and clubs for players injured during the 2006 World Cup finals.

Blatter said the executive had unanimously rejected plans of 15 European leagues to form a European League and warned them that they faced sanctions if they went ahead with their proposals.

He confirmed also that FIFA would immediately amend its own disciplinary codes to bring them in line with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code.