TEMPORARY DISMISSALS
Soccer world body to look at sin bins
Changes under consideration at soccer bodies include abolishing extra time and penalty shootouts
London — Temporary dismissals, also known as sin bins, for yellow card offences at lower levels of the game could be approved at an annual meeting of soccer’s rule makers in March. The International Football Association Board (Ifab) said on Wednesday a proposal to allow such dismissals in youth and amateur football was on the agenda for its annual meeting at Wembley Stadium on March 3. Tests have been carried out in European soccer body Uefa’s development competitions and some amateur leagues over the past three years. Former Dutch international Marco van Basten, Fifa’s chief technical officer, has said sin bins would benefit attacking teams more than giving a yellow card to the player who has interrupted their move. "It is more difficult with 10 against 11, and even more so with eight or nine," he told German magazine Sport Bild. The Ifab agenda includes the extension of modifications to the laws of the game to give national associations more freedom to decide on issues such as the...
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