Sepp Blatter has defended FIFA's decision not to introduce goal-line technology into football, arguing the cost involved would prevent it from being implemented at all levels of the game.
Football's governing body has been coming under increasing pressure to allow match officials to view television replays in order to determine whether a ball had crossed the goal-line.
However, at a meeting of the International FA Board at the weekend, it was decided that there would be no further experiments with technology, a ruling that Blatter wholly supported.
"The application of modern technologies can be very costly, and therefore not applicable on a global level," he told FIFA.com.
"The universality of the game: one of the main objectives of FIFA is to protect the universality of the game of association football.
"This means that the game must be played in the same way no matter where you are in the world.
"If you are coaching a group of teenagers in any small town around the world, they will be playing with the same rules as the professional players they see on TV."
He added: "If the IFAB had approved goal-line technology, what would prevent the approval of technology for other aspects of the game? Every decision in every area of the pitch would soon be questioned.
"No matter which technology is applied, at the end of the day a decision will have to be taken by a human being.
"Besides, fans love to debate any given incident in a game. It is part of the human nature of our sport."