US EditionFootball's rulemakers set to introduce blue cards for sin-bins
- The International Football Association Board is set to introduce blue cards as part of trials of sin bins in professional football to tackle altercations on the pitch and among spectators.
- Referees will have the power to send players off for 10 minutes for dissent or cynical fouls, and the blue card will be used as a temporary suspension indicator.
- The use of sin-bins and blue cards will not be implemented in top-level competitions initially, but trials may begin in lower-level competitions like the FA Cup and Women's FA Cup.
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The red and yellow card: we know them in football. Now we see the blue card emerging. It may simply be that this can be used in the future as a penalty for footballers, for example, when they protest a decision by the referee. They would then receive a 10-minute suspension. FIFA says it is still far off, but there are plans to test it. Opinions are divided.
Football is constantly evolving and so are its rules. Next March 2 may be a key date for what is coming in the world of football, in the new rules that we want to introduce in the European football regulations, from which the so-called blue card and its 10-minute expulsion have already been forcefully transcended, but there are more new rules that we want to implement in the medium term in European football by the International Football Board As…
Football regulations will soon introduce blue cards, with which players who commit tactical fouls or protest the referee's decisions will be removed for ten minutes, according to the British newspaper The Telegraph, as cited by the EFE agency.
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