Goalkeepers have adapted to many new rules, but how could the countdown law about football change?

The sight of a goalkeeper who collects a simple shot, breaks down to the ground and takes an age to separate from the ball is an annoying one if your team tracks. If your team leads, it is a beautiful form of expressive art.

However, the space for such theaters is to be pressed, however, since the international football association board (ifab) was on what it sees as a increasing trend of the goalkeepers who can get away with a time change.

A goalkeeper who is delayed for too long for a tork kick is not unusual, but how often do you see an indirect free kick that is given for a goalkeeper who holds the ball in your hands beyond the six-second limit? This rule can even be news for your ears, it is so rare.

Ifab – consisting of the four home nations of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland Plus FIFA – voted for a change in the law, in which the opposition is rather corner kick than an indirect free kick if a goalkeeper holds the ball on the ball for more than eight seconds. It will come into force at the June World Cup in the USA.

The theory is that the less serious punishment should make it easier for the referees to enforce the rule.

Goalkeepers will no longer be able to present a surprise about their delays. In the attempts that IFAB carried out in the youth leagues of England and Italy this season as well as Malta's top flight this season, the referees brought the goalkeeper a visual countdown with five seconds by lifting an arm and then, like the clock, on one clock.

In the more than 400 test games with goalkeepers in Italy's U-20 league in Italy, only four corners were awarded to the Italian league in more than 75 percent of the time. In view of the fact that committed trainers have led to corners for some teams, this indicates that it can serve as an effective deterrent.

The fact that Pierluigi Collina, the chairman of the FIFA referee committee and one of the strictest officials in his generation, never emphasized an indirect free kick for the waste of time in his entire 18-year career, how little it has been enforced for years.

“This is much better than what we saw in Series A and the other big leagues in which goalkeepers can have it for 20 seconds or longer,” he said at IFAB's annual general meeting in Belfast.

The Premier League is on track to record a new season record for the number of yellow cards that are shown the goalkeeper for time -consuming. Last season they set a benchmark to 30, but this year's total amount is already 26, with 11 games remaining.

Between 2006-07 and 2013-14, the average number per season was only 10 and between 2014-15 and 2019-20 the average to 15. In the past five years, however, a strong increase has increased, which coincides with a further major standard change in connection with goalkeepers.

In 2019, ifab decided that the first pass had no longer had to leave the penalty area when the goal kick. It should help the teams to build ownership and make the game more attractive, since it meant that outfield players could receive the ball unhindered, as close to the goalkeeper as they wanted.

The effects on the game were profound. The number of hits that were briefly played in the Premier League last season was more than twice what it was before the rule in 2018-19 came into force when about three quarters of them had started for a long time.

It is the latest in 160 years of improvements to the parameters of the goalkeeper position. In the early days of the association football it wasn't even a position of its own. Each player was able to catch or knock the ball with her hands, but that changed that no players did this until 1871, when the goalkeeper role was created.

They were able to bypass the ball all over their own half of the field as long as they did not wore it, which was a deviation from rugby sport.

The Welsh goalkeeper Leigh Roose set the rules and became famous for running at halftime while he hopped the ball before making a pass. It is believed that the change in the law of 1912, which the goalkeepers were only created to deal with the ball in the penalty area in 1901, after it was previously stretched over the entire width of the field and from a semicircle to the rectangular form that we now know, changed.

Things settled until 1931, when goalkeepers were allowed to take four steps in hand, which was two more than the case.

In 1992, however, a seismic change occurred in which the backpass rule was introduced. The goalkeepers were no longer allowed to pick up the ball if their teammate intentionally continued directly to them. Similar to IFAB's most recent tweak, it was an attempt to reduce the time depreciation, since the players in the winning team would pour the ball back into the arms of their goalkeeper to extinguish a risk of risk.

At the turn of the millennium, the four -stage border with the ball in hand was changed to a time limit of six seconds, since goalkeeper repeatedly collapse the ball into a stationary position to delay the game.

How could this new rule of eight seconds, with the risk of a corner ship for the waste of time, change the game?

At the most basic level, the time limit could promote the risky decision -making of goalkeepers because they are under pressure to release them. On the other hand, the opposition can stimulate simple early passes and switch off, which could mean that goalkeepers go with less time to select the perfect option. Goalkeepers may even have to travel to their own box if they want to create the desired angle.

There will always be opportunities to adapt and stretch new rules. Perhaps goalkeepers hold onto the ball until the last second before they drop it and move into space. In order to counteract this, attackers can stand a few meters in front of the goalkeeper and know that they are under pressure to leave it out quickly.

With regard to the time, the clock begins as soon as they are viewed as a control over the ball. It should mean that the modern tactic of a goalkeeper who has a cross after the claim, while the defenders form a queue to pat their heads, are probably not continued.

Goalkeepers must have an eye on the referee's count. The problem with every new rule is that its implementation will inevitably lead to complaints about how strictly and consistently it is used. Referees often see the goalkeepers to hurry up with tork kicks – some teams now need about 40 seconds to play the ball – but it usually takes several warnings and an extreme delay before a yellow is shown.

The recent clamps on Dissens and steps of the ball at free kick saw an immediate increase in punishments, but then loosened. This could create a resentment under fan bases if your team has added a corner due to a second delay, while in another game a team with a longer delay gets away.

Referees are people and therefore no arbitrary time restriction is observed for each time. The question then is: How strict are civil servants being advised to be?

Will we really see that referees are such stickers for the rules that they award corners on the largest site in the last few minutes because a goalkeeper took nine seconds?

In theory, the rule should create a positive change in the game by keeping the ball alive longer, but as with every change, evidence will be in pudding.

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