The FIFAas well as the International Boardthe body that sets the rules of football, studies introduction changes in current regulations to avoid goalkeepersin penalty shootouts, those skills can be practiced delay the issuance of the maximum penalty or that influence to the player that executed them.
The Sun newspaper, which promoted the information, linked this initiative to the practices used by ‘Draw’ Martinez, goalkeeper of the Argentine team, in the last World Cup in Qatar.
In that championship, the goalkeeper did all kinds of tricks center to opposing players or to to enlarge the time of execution, with the intention of making his opponents nervous.
As a result of these attitudes, FIFA is ready take actions to avoid repetition. And that the goalkeeper, among other things, cannot maintain direct contact with the opponent, so as not to throw him in the middle.
Source: La Verdad
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