Serie A, the rules change: ball boys replaced by design cones on the edge of the pitch
The game of soccer continues to transform, the last new rule it concerns the ball boythe kids on the sidelines who they recovered the balls left the field and passed them to the players to put them back into play. Serie A has decided that from next season it will no longer be like this. They will continue to recover the balls, but – reports Il Corriere della Sera – they won’t be the ones to pass them anymoreThe footballers will do it themselves, like in England, taking them from the appropriate design cones placed around the field. “So we will avoid strategic time wasters” explained the referee designator Rocks.
A very valid reason, but one that will inevitably bring a tear to your eye. nostalgicthose who still today remember the goal taken away from Savoldi from the 16-year-old ball boy Citeroni in Ascoli-Bologna in 1975 or the cult photo of the goalkeeper Galli that in a Fiorentina-Bologna of 1980 is updated on the results by a boy with a radio. Crackdown – continues Il Corriere – also against the protests: like at the European Championships only the captains speakthe others will be immediately cautioned. The handball that prevents a goal will no longer be automatically punished with a red card, but only if the touch is intentional, otherwise a yellow card is enough. The penalty rule also changes: the attacker who enters the area before the shot and impacts the subsequent action will be penalised with a punishment against.
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