Blue Card in Football: FIFA Debunks Preliminary Reports

Blue Card in Football: FIFA Debunks Preliminary Reports
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Friday 9 February 2024, 12:24

The blue card is ready to make its entrance into the world of football in the near future. The introduction of the measure was announced yesterday, but today the Fifa has taken a step back. The world football body, chaired by Gianni Infantino, issued a statement in the morning via its official X profile: «The news about the use of such a blue card at the elite levels is wrong and premature».

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The statement

The statement then continues: «Any experimentation of this kind, if implemented, should be limited to responsibly testing at lower levels, a position that FIFA intends to reiterate when this agenda item is discussed at the IFAB's AGM on March 2».

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