According to information shared by The Telegraph this Thursday, Ifab, the body in charge of football rules, would like to introduce the blue card.
A tool that would allow the referee to exclude a player for a period of ten minutes, then let him return to the field.
FIFA commented on this announcement the same evening.
“FIFA would like to clarify that reports of the so-called 'blue card' at the elite level of football are incorrect and premature.
Such testing, if implemented, should be limited to tests carried out responsibly at lower levels,” the body said.
FIFA wishes to clarify that reports of the so-called 'blue card' at elite levels of football are incorrect and premature.
Any such trials, if implemented, should be limited to testing in a responsible manner at lower levels, a position that FIFA intends to reiterate when this…
— FIFA Media (@fifamedia) February 8, 2024
FIFA will also meet Ifab on March 2 to discuss this subject.
But the body responsible for establishing the rules of football could communicate as early as this Friday about the blue card.
An innovation that is not to everyone's taste.
In January, Aleksander Ceferin, the head of UEFA, decried it: “It's no longer football.
We will not use them in UEFA competitions.
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In France, the white card, an equivalent of the blue card, is already introduced in several leagues at the amateur level.
It has also been tested in other countries.
The president of the FIFA Referees Committee, Pierluigi Collina, was satisfied with it in November 2023: “The test was conclusive among the amateurs.
We are now talking about a much higher, highly professional level.”