Infantino proposes new offside rule: marginal goals to count | OneFootball

During the World Sport Summit in Dubai, Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, put forward a proposal that could revolutionize the offside rule, focusing on the complete position of the attacker in relation to the last defender.

Infantino proposes the new offside: “Goals with irregular millimeters to be validated”

“Let’s consider the offside rule, which has evolved over the years, requiring the attacker to be behind or in line with the defender: perhaps in the future, the attacker will have to be completely ahead to be offside,” Infantino said during the summit.

According to the FIFA president, offside should only be called when the attacker is totally beyond the last defender, questioning the current application of the semi-automatic line adopted in recent years. With this change, goals scored from millimetrically or partially irregular positions would be validated, something that today’s technology prevents.

The proposal opens a debate on the balance between technological precision and the spectacle of the game, raising questions about how football might change if the interpretation of offside became more permissive and less tied to millimetric details.

Antonio Karol Giordano

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