The International Football Association Board (IFAB) has agreed this Wednesday to extend the possibility for teams to make five changes per game until July 31, 2021, as well as in international competitions that take place during the months of July and August. next year. “After making an exhaustive assessment, for which the comments of the different interest groups have been taken into account and with an analysis of the repercussion of covid-19 in the calendars of the competitions, the board of directors of the IFAB has decided to extend this possibility, “FIFA said in a statement.
The IFAB considers that the reasons that led on May 8 to “temporarily” amend rule 3 regarding “players” remain valid, as, he stressed, “some of the competitions resumed in 2020 will have less time of the usual recovery or preparation before the start of the following season “. He also justified the extension of this measure by the fact that “many competitions will have to play matches in the 2020-21 season in concentrated periods because they had to start late, and without the possibility of concluding later than normal for the dispute important international tournaments “.
“In order to affect as little as possible” the development of the matches, the teams will have only three different opportunities or moments during the match to make substitutions, not counting those made during the break, “which are not counted as one of the three opportunities mentioned “. However, and as the IFAB stressed, the organizer of the competition “will continue to have the final say in deciding whether to apply this transitional amendment.”
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