The Ifab agenda for their meeting on March 3 has been published. The meeting will be held in Surrey, England, where the board will discuss various proposals to the Laws of the Game.
The main proposals to be discussed are the amendments of text in Law 3, Law 8, and Law 12.
In Law 3 – The player, Fifa has submitted a proposal to allow a fourth substitution in extra time.
The FIFA Task Force Football 2014, the Medical Committee and the Football Committee support the proposal in order to maintain the technical level until the 120th minute and to protect the health of the players (as a means of preventing injuries).
In Law 8 – The start and restart of play, the Football Association has suggested that the dropped ball part should be clarified when a dropped ball is kicked directly into a goal. They would like some additional text stating that a dropped ball kicked directly into an opponent’s goal should result in a goal kick, and into their own goal should result in a corner kick. This is similar to how the rule is for the indirect free kick.
The discussion of Law 12 will focus around the triple punishment for a player denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity (DOGSO). The discussion has circled around the punishment of a player with sending off, penalty, and suspension in the following game.
The text submitted by Fifa adds two bullet points where the suggestion is that the a player committing DOGSO outside the penalty area and a player committing DOGSO without the possibility to play the ball should be sent off. If these two amendments are approved they will suggest that a player committing DOGSO inside the penalty area should be cautioned, not sent off as today’s text states.
As Fifa writes in the Ifab agenda:
The triple punishment (penalty kick + red card + player suspension) for a player who denies an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to an opponent moving towards his goal by an offence punishable by a penalty is widely considered to be too severe. A player would still receive a red card for denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity outside of the penalty area as well as for denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by deliberately handling the ball, by holding or an offence committed from behind inside his own penalty area when he has no opportunity to play the ball. A penalty kick and a yellow card would be enough sanction for other offences that deny an obvious goal-scoring opportunity committed by a defending player inside his own penalty area.
Aside from discussing amendments to the Laws, the board will also discuss the AAR experiment, the vanish spray experiment, and goal-line technology.
The complete document can be found here. Any amendments made at the March meeting will be implemented on July 1 unless they find it necessary to fast track it for this summer’s European Championship.
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