The Argentine goalkeeper has played his game. Possible change in the rules of football

Emiliano Martinez was one of the main heroes of the Argentina national team at last year’s World Cup. The goalkeeper was remembered not only for his successful saves, but also for distracting rival players in the penalty shoot-out. This took place in meetings with the Netherlands and France. Among other things, Martinez argued with the referee and thus delayed Kingsley Coman’s penalty kick and distracted Aurelien Tchouameni by clearing the ball forward.

Emiliano Martinez motivated the IFAB to change

According to “The Sun”, Martinez’s behavior irritated the board of the IFAB (an organization dealing with the creation and improvement of rules in football), which plans to introduce changes. They are intended to limit attempts by the goalkeeper to distract players. It was unanimously stated that goalkeepers should not be allowed to delay the execution of the “kick” and unfairly distract the rival.

Slightly different information was provided by “The Times”. According to journalists, the activists of the organization said that changing the rules was not needed, but that referees should use the existing rules to stop such behavior. Recall that Szymon Marciniak punished Emiliano Martinez for distracting rivals with a yellow card. The decision on the amendment of the rules is to be made in March, but you can already be sure that referees should pay more attention to the behavior of goalkeepers from now on.

Not only Emiliano Martinez tried to influence the psyche of shooters. Andries Noppert also behaved similarly. Earlier, it was also loud about the Australian goalkeeper Andrew Redmaynie, who in the penalty shoot-out match for the World Cup against Peru

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Argentina defeated France on penalties in the World Cup final. It was the team’s first triumph at the World Cup in 36 years.