As one of the most watched sports in the world, changes in the rules of football have always attracted great attention, and now the possibility of adding a "blue card" is in the spotlight.
On 9 February, the International Football Association Council (FIFA) Council had approved the introduction of a blue card penalty, but it would need to be tested in lower-level competitions first, according to a report by the United Kingdom**.
According to the current rules, if a player commits a foul in a football match, the referee will decide whether to give a verbal warning, a yellow card warning, or a red card to send the offender off the field according to the severity.
A blue card is defined as a blue card and 10 minutes sent off if a player deliberately fouls an opponent to disrupt a threatening attack, or makes a bad remark about the game.
At the same time, if the same person receives two blue cards or one yellow and one blue in the same game, it will also accumulate into a red card and be sent off.
In a way, blue cards add a "temporary sent" layer between a yellow card warning and a red card drop, and this is not the first time this has been suggested.
In October last year, the FIFA Council Football and Technical Advisory Group recommended the inclusion of a "penalty bench" for players to play temporarily in football matches in order to target deliberate tactical fouls and more serious fouls that do not warrant a red card.
Similar rules were tried in Brazil's domestic competitions back in the 90s, and the FA studied them, but rejected the proposal twice in 2002 and 2003.
However, footballers, including Italian whistle Colina, have supported this new attempt.
As for the prospect of using blue cards, FIFA has officially issued a statement saying that it will not immediately use blue card rules in elite-level competitions.
The current use of blue cards in elite events is too hasty. Any such testing should be limited to testing in a responsible manner at lower levels. ”
In fact, in many other sports such as beach soccer and ice hockey, there are rules for temporarily sending offending players off the field, but whether such rules apply to football has been debated for many years.
While some people support it, there are also many opposing voices, and Polish football legend Boniek said that this rule is "ridiculous" and "an additional controversy**".
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