Total separation for sanctioned technician

Mundo Deportivo had access to the regulatory changes of FIFA Disciplinary Code recently approved and where among them there are some changes that affect the figure of coach and him too player allowed. In the case of the coach, his performance is limited to matches that must comply with a disciplinary sanction.

You cannot access these changing rooms, tunnels or technical areas before and during the match. But FIFA article 66 also makes it clear that “you may not have any contact with people involved in the match. In particular with players or members of your team. Both before and during the match.”

This means that the image we see in matches when the sanctioned coach or one of his assistants has a telephone conversation on the bench during the match from the box after the match. You can only access the changing rooms and have contact at the end of the match. During the match, they will be given a seat in the stands, but never near the field of play and they will be strictly prohibited from attending the media at the end of the match, either in a press conference or in any other related activity.

Another important change affects the figure of the player. Who does not remember the image of Sergio Ramos on April 12, 2018 in Real Madrid-Juventus in the semifinals of the Champions League? The penalty awarded to the white team in the final moments gave rise to a fight later over access to the changing room tunnel, with the former Madrid captain trying to reconcile. The one from Camas was allowed that day and was seen in the final moments of the game watching it from this spot.

Then the possibility arose that he could be punished, something that finally did not happen because there was no specific article in UEFA at the time on this matter, as in terms of coaches. But this too will change. First the FIFA regulations and we will see if it extends to both UEFA and LaLiga.

Among the new disciplinary regulatory modifications made by FIFA, and those experienced by MD, when a player is allowed “he cannot access the changing room, technical area, before and during the match, or occupy a place. on the bench.” It is as soon as the match ends, with the referee’s final whistle, when he can go to the locker room with the rest of his teammates. This is included in the new article 66 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code.

During the match, as is the case with the coach, a place can be placed in the stands but not next to the playing field. He will also not be able to attend the media at the end of the meeting.

Once they have been approved by FIFA, they will normally also apply in future to the UEFA Disciplinary Code; confederation dependent on the highest European body, and also assumed by the Spanish Football Federation itself in its Disciplinary Code.