FIFA President Gianni Infantino has dominated out blue playing cards being proven to gamers despatched into sin bins.
A plan had been shaped by a few of soccer’s lawmakers for a brand new card to affix the long-standing purple and yellow ones that referees can deploy.
The proposal emerged final month, with Sky News understanding that some protocols had already been ready for launch.
Sin bins are at the moment solely used on the decrease ranges of grassroots soccer, with gamers despatched into them for 10 minutes for dissent.
But Mr Infantino rejected the concept of blue playing cards getting used within the skilled sport.
Speaking in Scotland, forward of Saturday’s assembly of the International Football Association Board (IFAB) at Loch Lomond, he stated: “FIFA is completely opposed to blue cards.
“Red card to the blue card. No means. You should be severe.
“We are always open at IFAB, at FIFA, to look into ideas and proposals… but once you look at it you also have to protect the game, the essence of the game, the tradition of the game.
“There isn’t any blue card.”
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The world governing physique holds 4 of the eight votes on IFAB, which is holding its 138th annual assembly this weekend. The different votes are held by the 4 British nations.
Mr Infantino additionally dismissed requires non permanent concussion substitutes, following a request from gamers’ unions involved about long-term mind injury attributable to head accidents.
FIFA’s choice is for groups to make an additional everlasting substitution to interchange gamers suspected of getting a concussion.
Mr Infantino stated: “We studied it and medical experts are saying it is simply impossible in a few minutes to be able to determine whether there has been a concussion, whether concussion is serious or not.
“And that is why, in case of a suspected concussion, the participant must be substituted.
“If you want to care about the health of the player, then the players go out and another player comes in, and that’s the end of it.
“And this might shield the participant. All the remainder shouldn’t be defending the heads of gamers, simply making some PR bulletins.”
Football’s law-making body IFAB is being sued by a group of former players in the UK who allege they suffered brain injuries from playing football and authorities failed to take reasonable action to protect them from repeated concussive and sub-concussive blows.
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A spokesman for the Professional Footballers’ Association told Sky News: “It sends a horrible message in regards to the sport’s priorities when IFAB will take significantly the concept of eradicating a participant for 10 minutes for dissent, however oppose it if the participant is likely to be affected by concussion.
“Leagues and unions are aligned in the view that temporary concussion subs are a positive step for player welfare.
“As the sport’s rule makers, IFAB ought to mirror that by permitting trials – not stand of their means.”
Last year a Swedish study found footballers are 50% more likely to develop dementia than the rest of the population.
But goalkeepers – who rarely head the ball – had no increased risk of Alzheimer’s or dementia.
This “assist(ed) the speculation that gentle head impacts sustained when heading the ball might clarify the elevated threat in outfield gamers”, the examine concluded.
Source: information.sky.com”