FIFA panel to review national-team match schedule (The Associated Press)

Reviewing FIFA's schedule of national team match dates is top priority for the world body's new football stakeholders committee that includes clubs and player unions. FIFA vice president Victor Montagliani told The Associated Press after chairing the panel's first meeting on Thursday that the international calendar was ''obviously the big behemoth'' on an agenda that includes transfer market reform, players' health, and respect for contracts. A proposed pan-American Copa America in June 2020 - likely hosted in the United States - could be organized only if FIFA changed the current calendar agreed through 2022.