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Malay Mail
7 days ago
- General
- Malay Mail
Alvarez's Atletico Madrid shootout blunder leads to IFAB rethink on penalty retakes
PARIS, June 4 — If Julian Alvarez slips while taking a spot kick for Atletico Madrid at the Club World Cup this month, he will get the second chance he was denied in the Champions League in March, after international football's rule-making body on Tuesday clarified the double-touch rule. Football's rule-making International Football Association Board (IFAB) announced that if players unintentionally touch the ball twice while taking a spot-kick and still find the net, they should be allowed a retake. Alvarez slipped as he netted his penalty kick in a shooutout to decide a Champions League derby against Real Madrid. Video review (VAR) detected that he had touched the ball twice and the referee ruled the shot a miss under Law 14, which deals with penalty kicks. Real went on to win the shootout 4-2. After the match, European governing body Uefa said that 'under the current rule, the VAR had to call the referee signalling that the goal should be disallowed'. Uefa said it would hold talks with world football's governing body Fifa and the rule-making International Football Association Board (IFAB) to discuss the issue. On Tuesday, IFAB issued its ruling. It was due to come into force on July 1, but Fifa at once announced the change would apply to the Club World Cup, which kicks off in the United States on June 15 with both Madrid clubs among the 32 teams. Uefa also adopted the change, stating that 'all Uefa matches, starting with the Uefa Nations League semi-final between Germany and Portugal on 4 June 2025 will now be played under the new interpretation of Law 14'. 'The situation where the penalty taker accidentally kicks the ball with both feet simultaneously or when the ball touches the penalty taker's non-kicking foot or leg immediately after they have taken the kick... is rare,' wrote Lukas Brud, IFAB's secretary in a circular. 'As it is not directly covered in Law 14, referees have understandably tended to penalise the kicker for having touched the ball again,' he wrote. However, he added, the law 'is primarily intended for situations where the penalty taker deliberately touches the ball a second time before it has touched another player'. 'This is very different from the penalty taker accidentally kicking the ball with both feet simultaneously or touching the ball with their non-kicking foot or leg immediately after they have taken the kick, which usually occurs because they have slipped.' Brud pointed out that even an accidental second touch could be unfair to a goalkeeper because it changes the ball's trajectory. Therefore, he wrote, IFAB had decided that 'if the kick is successful, it is retaken'. If a kick during the game is unsuccessful, the result is an indirect free kick, as it would be for a deliberate second touch, unless the referee decides to play an advantage for the defending team. In a shootout it remains a miss. — AFP
BBC News
15-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Why Sancho can't play against Man Utd for Chelsea
Premier League rules will prevent Chelsea's on-loan winger Jadon Sancho facing his parent club Manchester United this the Premier League and FA Cup, a loan player cannot be fielded against his parent Football Association's rule for men's FA Cup football is that a loan player "cannot play in a competition match against their parent club", while the Premier League handbook states that "during the period of the temporary transfer... a player shall not play against the transferor club".Players can face their parent club in the League Cup, according to English Football League rules, but that club must give written rules dictate that clubs cannot apply "any influence whatsoever over the players that another club may [or may not] field in a match".That means a player can face their parent team in any of Uefa's European women's football, the FA ruling is that terms shall be "mutually agreed by the two clubs and the player".Often, the parent club will decide whether the loan player can face them. In January 2024, Everton loanee Kathrine Kuhl was not allowed to face her parent club Arsenal in the WSL. Loan players in the Premier League and Europe Lomana LuaLua was the last Premier League player to make a notable impact when facing his parent club - he scored an equaliser for Portsmouth against Newcastle 2004, the Premier League has changed its rules to prevent players featuring against the teams that loan them 2022, Chelsea blocked on-loan midfielder Conor Gallagher from appearing for Crystal Palace in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley."We met some weeks ago, we met after the international break by coincidence in a restaurant, and we had a chat and the subject came up. And I apologised," Chelsea's then head coach Thomas Tuchel explained in the build-up to the rules changed shortly after and now state: "The association will not give permission for players on loan or work experience to play against the lending club."It meant Sheffield United were unable to field loanees Tommy Doyle and James McAtee in their 2023 FA Cup semi-final against Manchester were granted permission from Chelsea to play loanee Lewis Hall in December 2023, when the teams faced each other in their EFL Cup Asensio faced parent club Paris St-Germain in their 2024-25 Champions League quarter-final against Aston Villa, after his loan move to Villa Park in article is the latest from BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team. What is Ask Me Anything? Ask Me Anything is a service dedicated to answering your want to reward your time by telling you things you do not know and reminding you of things you team will find out everything you need to know and be able to call upon a network of contacts including our experts and will be answering your questions from the heart of the BBC Sport newsroom, and going behind the scenes at some of the world's biggest sporting coverage will span the BBC Sport website, app, social media and YouTube accounts, plus BBC TV and radio. More questions answered... Match of the Day - your questions answeredIs a guard of honour mandatory in football?Why are footballers allowed to chew gum?How much are the EFL play-off finals worth?
