the Confusion is that often total, when the uncertainty creeps in.
‘Was that hand?’
The frustrating answer is that, in most cases, no one is right by it, if not then we exactly talking about a misdemeanor, which even Maradona would find it difficult to talk themselves out of.
And as late as in Wednesdays Champions League ottendedelsfinale between Schalke 04 and Manchester City was mad again. Schalke were awarded a penalty kick after the ball had hit the defender Nicolás Otamendi on the arm in a situation where he clearly could not do much to avoid the contact.
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Manchester City were far from happy with the penalty in Wednesday’s showdown with Schalke 04. Photo: Odd Andersen/Ritzau Scanpix
But the ball hit his arm. And that was why the referee Carlos Del Cerro in its good right to award the germans a penalty kick. He could, however, also have chosen not to do so.
As the rules are written today, it would be up to the judge to decide whether the contact between the ball and the player arm is caused by a so-called ‘intentional’ action, as DB puts it. And the put it mildly, vague wording has long created great debate among both judges, players and spectators.
Therefore, The International Football Association Board, IFAB, in the next week to present a rewrite of the current rules, which should clarify the guidelines and get the confusion to life.
In an interview with The Times tells the technical director of the IFAB David Elleray on the initiative.
– The new wording will clarify the situations in which a player can expect to be penalised for hand on the ball, and when you will not be penalized. It will reduce the number of gray-zones significantly, he says.
Yussufs’s hand was also the fault of a questionable penalty kick at the WORLD cup. Photo: Gregers Tycho
David Elleray stresses, however, that the new measures are only going to focus on the areas where today there arises many doubts.
– of course This has never been talk of relaxing the rules for the deliberate hand on the ball. A player who is clearly trying to influence the game by using their hands, will be punished in every situation, he says.
The new wording will be published after an IFAB meeting in Aberdeen 2. march.
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