Bayern stars get creative: Goretzka calls for a penalty revolution | OneFootball

A soccer game without offside? Or double goals for long-distance shots? In a new video on FC Bayern's YouTube channel, the Munich stars revealed which soccer rules they would like to change—and sparked plenty of debate in the process.

Above all, the attacking players of the German record champions dream of a world without restrictions in offensive play. Unsurprisingly: those who create action up front want to be called back as rarely as possible.

Goretzka Advocates for a Handball Revolution

Leon Goretzka expressed his wish for reform most emphatically. The midfield engine would completely overhaul the handball rule in the penalty area: “I wish that for an unintentional handball in the box, there would only be an indirect free kick—and only for intentional handballs would there be a penalty,” Goretzka explained.

A change that many soccer fans would likely support—discontent over sometimes arbitrary handball decisions and harsh penalty calls has been growing for years.

From Double Goals to Net Playing Time: How Bayern Would Change Soccer



The other Bayern stars also let their creativity run wild. Raphaël Guerreiro, for example, came up with an idea that would surely excite every long-range shooter: “Goals from outside the penalty area should count double. Two goals if you score from outside—that would change the whole game!”

Konrad Laimer took a more pragmatic approach and jokingly complained about the yellow card suspension rule: “I would change the rule with the five yellow cards so that they are wiped after the first half of the season. Otherwise, I’m always suspended once. Five yellows in 34 games—who came up with that?”

And Joshua Kimmich would make soccer more structured: net playing time like in handball or basketball, to avoid excessively long stoppage times.

Whether any of these ideas will ever actually be implemented remains to be seen—one thing is certain: there’s no shortage of topics to talk about on Säbener Straße.

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