1.   The rules stipulate that clubs must field the strongest team available.

2.   In May, his Democratic club fielded a slate of school board candidates, and many won.

3.   Because the senior players were taking an off-season break, the clubs fielded reserves and loan players.

4.   Each club can field up to three foreign players.

5.   Each club can field an unlimited number of European Union players but they reduced the number of non-EU players from six to five.

6.   German amateur clubs can field as many foreigners as they want to.

7.   Italian rules allow clubs to field up to three non-European Union players in league or Italian Cup games.

8.   Italian first-division clubs can field three foreign players in league and Cup matches, but Balbo and Sensini will not be counted among them.

9.   Some countries within the EU, such as England, Scotland and the Netherlands, have already scrapped the foreigner restrictions and clubs are fielding as many as five.

10.   That meeting will almost certainly allow European clubs to field as many foreigners from other EU nations as they like.