Sepp Blatter: Penalties are a tragedy

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has urged former Germany international Franz Beckenbauer to find an alternative to 'tragic' penalty shootouts.

Beckenbauer is the head of a task force for the world governing body and Blatter believes that penalties should not decide the winner of a match following Chelsea's Champions League victory over Bayern Munich, which came down to penalties.

"Football can be a tragedy when you go to penalty kicks," said Blatter. "Football is a team game, when it goes to one against one football loses its essence.

"Perhaps Franz Beckenbauer, with his Football 2014 group, can show us a solution, perhaps not today but in the future."

Meanwhile, goal-line technology is continuing to progress as experts intend to test one of the systems during England's friendly against Belgium on June 2.