Professional refs only for Brazil 2014: Blatter

FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes referees should be full-time professionals if they want to work at the next World Cup.

Blatter said that improving the quality of elite referees is his top priority in the coming months - and beyond if he is chosen next June to lead Fifa for a fourth four-year term. The veteran Swiss said "as long as I am (president]" then "only professionals" will be taken to Brazil in 2014. "You can't have non-professional referees in professional football."