article_snippet: FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke claimed at the IFAB summit in Belfast that FIFA had heard nothing from the Dutch FA ahead of that meeting about a proposal for a video assistant to aid the referee.
article_snippet: the Dutch FA the Dutch FA had strongly supported the plan for the technology to be trialled in the Dutch Cup, but that was rejected by the FIFA representatives on IFAB.
article_snippet: Now the Dutch FA has emerged that the Dutch FA the Dutch FA had asked ‘several times’ to present to FIFA, without success.
article_snippet: To add to the conspiracy, Dutch the Dutch FA president Michael van Praag is standing for the FIFA presidency and a green light for the technology test would have given Dutch FA president Michael van Praag added kudos in the build-up to the May election.
article_snippet: FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said FIFA knew nothing of the Dutch FADutch the Dutch FA's video referee proposals .
highlights_snippet: The FA was denied opportunity to present video referee proposal .
  