The FIFA He is eager to take a giant step and change football as we understand it until now by turning around a rule that completely conditions all matches.
According to The Athletic, the highest body in the world of football has encouraged the International Football Association Board (IFAB) to pursue and approve the revolutionary new offside regulations, which are still being tested.
Arsene Wengerlegend of Arsenal, is the thinking mind working on this new idea. Since 1990 it has been established that any player in the attacking team is in an illegal position if a capable part of his body that allows him to score a goal is closer to the goal than the ball and the penultimate opponent, but it cannot be done. much longer.
What FIFA has proposed, and could mean a very important change in football, This means that a player is in an offside position when his whole body is between the penultimate defender and the goal. That is, as long as one leg is at the height of the opposing player, no matter how big the rest of the body is, it cannot be considered an illegal position.
The basis of the idea is to reduce the number of offsides in each game and make them easier to detect, but it is clear that this will have a direct impact on the strategies of the teams, especially those who decide to move on from the danger more your rival will catch a lot.
Right now, the IFAB has agreed to address the new proposal after tests conducted at the U-18 championship in Italy, as well as subsequent tests in the Netherlands and Sweden.
“The discussion about changing the offside law is not new and not something we will see introduced at a higher level in the near future”he explained Wenger, whose wish is to approve the conduct of more tests for this change in regulations, which he has been studying since 2020, after being appointed in 2018 as the head of FIFA’s global football development. “FIFA is committed to testing this new rule, which favors the attacker, and applied it to elite youth competitions across Europe. We will continue these tests, analyze the results and discuss them with all relevant stakeholders,” concluded the French.
Source: La Verdad
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