When football develops over time, changing and adjusting the rules is necessary. Adjustment to create suitability for each stage, each period.
Recently, many ideas have been proposed and then become a new point in the football law - such as allowing teams to replace 5 players after the King sport was affected by the COVID-19 epidemic. Most recently, former coach Arsene Wenger has a new proposal.
After more than 20 years leading Arsenal, "Profesor" Wenger has moved to work at the World Football Federation (FIFA), as the Director of the Global Football Development Program. That position helped him bring up technical problems.
In addition to his work at FIFA, Wenger was also a member of the IFFAB's review and decision-making process and on possible changes to the law, and coordinated with the Chairman of the FIFA Technical Research Group.
Earlier this year, the former French coach gave a new idea for the offside rule: "You won't be offside if your body parts can score an equalizer with your final defender, even if other parts of your body are up front."
Yesterday, on L'Equipe, Wenger introduced other issues that he is considering changing. First is throw-in. This is an action that is done quite a lot in matches and the players put the ball in play by throwing the ball with both hands according to the prescribed technique.
However, Wenger felt that this was a disadvantage for the side, so he suggested another approach to restart from the touchline. "5 minutes before the end of the match, a throw-in for you would be an advantage, but in these situations, you have to face 10 opponent players, while the other team has only 9," he said.
" statistics show that in 8/10 throw-ins, you lose the ball. In the home half, you should have a throw-in rather than a throw-in."
Next is the problem of corner kicks. If before now, the player takes a corner kick and the ball goes around the crossbar and returns to the field, it will not be counted. According to Wenger, that should be considered valid because "it will increase the chance of scoring".
In addition, he also talked about choosing to allow a quick free kick, but of course, that was the idea, but in reality, FIFA and IFAB had the say to decide on the adjustment of the law.
