Europe's top football leagues have called on clubs and players to respect contracts and keep their disputes out of international appeal courts. The Association of European Professional Football Leagues agreed Thursday to issue its 900-plus member clubs with guidelines helping them negotiate deals with players and agents.

Use of goal-line technology was rejected because of high costs and potential interruptions in the flow of games, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Thursday. The FIFA-dominated International Football Association Board rejected plans to pursue the use of technology at its annual meeting last weekend. "The application of modern technologies can be very costly, and therefore not applicable on a...