Football lawmakers are considering two major rule changes ahead of next year’s World Cup, with one a first in football’s 134-year history.
Rebounds from penalties could be scrapped for the 2026 tournament in the US, Canada and Mexico, according to a report from The Sun.
Meanwhile, changes to the video assistant refereeing system [VAR] could expand their powers to second yellow cards and corners.
The penalty rule would be by far the most ground-breaking, though, with numerous famous goals scored after penalties were saved, including Xabi Alonso’s effort in the 2005 Champions League final.
The goal made the game 3-3 after AC Milan led 3-0 at half-time, and Alonso bundled in after Dida’s initial save before Liverpool later won the tournament in the shoot-out.
Any change to the long-standing rule would have to be ratified by the International Football Association Board [IFAB] who have the final say over the laws of the game.
In the scenario that a penalty is saved or hits the goal frame and comes back into play, a goal kick would be awarded to the opposing team.
A penalty awarded by a referee would then effectively be the same as an attempt in a shoot-out where one shot is all that counts.
This would also simplify matters, with endless recent examples where players encroaching into the box had led to retakes and lengthy VAR reviews.
However, talkSPORT’s Alan Brazil expressed his anger with the radical change on Breakfast
“The change in the penalty rule, the goalkeeper saves it and you can’t knock the rebound in, what a… Who has made that up? Baloney!”
“Someone’s getting paid for this, by the way, a lot of money, these changes to the rules. What a load of tosh!” he added.
BBCGoalkeepers are having penalty saves ruled out due to coming off their line by a fraction[/caption] ITVOdds are further tilted against keepers by players like Lewandowski who practically stop dead during their run ups[/caption]Should such a rule come into force, football would then follow the same fashion as sports like ice hockey where once a shot has been taken, the play is over.
There’s more detail too, should a goalkeeper make a save and push the ball out of play, it would no longer count as a corner and a loss of possession, but instead a goal kick.
There are concerns among lawmakers that penalties have increasingly favoured the taker in recent years, with goalkeepers having to keep a foot on their goal line when the ball is struck.
That’s led to many superb saves being wiped out of the history books for minor infringements.
There have also been complaints that takers are further pushing things in their favour by infringing on rules about stopping run-ups, with Poland and Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski a particularly egregious example.
As for VAR, discussions on expanding the scope of the digital team first took place in 2023.
Players’ whole bodies would have to be offside with daylight between under Wenger’s proposals, with current rules far more stringentIn the current rules a straight red card sending off can be reviewed and overturned, but a second yellow sending off can’t.
The report adds that any changes would have to be ratified by the end of February 2026 in order to be in place for the summer’s World Cup.
It’s further claimed that trials are ongoing for FIFA head Arsene Wenger’s ‘daylight’ offside rule, where an attacker has to be completely past a defender to be called offside, rather than any part of any body part that can be used to play the ball.
One rule that has come into effect is on double-touch penalties following Julian Alvarez’s overturned shoot-out goal for Atletico Madrid against Real Madrid in last season’s Champions League.
The Argentine put away his effort, but it was then deemed to have kicked the ball into his standing foot, ruling out his goal and helping Real towards a 4-2 shoot-out win.
The rules now state than in such instances of an accidental touch, a re-take will instead be ordered.
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