{"id":30596,"date":"2025-06-03T15:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/double-touch-penalties-law-change-means-accidental-kicks-can-be-retaken\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T15:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:41:40","slug":"double-touch-penalties-law-change-means-accidental-kicks-can-be-retaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/double-touch-penalties-law-change-means-accidental-kicks-can-be-retaken\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Double-touch&#8217; penalties: Law change means accidental kicks can be retaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Atletico enquired with Uefa about the validity of the decision to disallow Alvarez&#8217;s penalty but the governing body insisted that &#8220;under the current rule, the video assistant referee (VAR) had to call the referee signalling that the goal should be disallowed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Article 14.1 states: &#8220;The kicker must not play the ball again until it has touched another player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Uefa said the day after the game it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce34ee74xl8o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">would enter discussions with Ifab<\/a> and world football&#8217;s governing body Fifa over cases where a double touch is &#8220;clearly unintentional&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The law does not directly cover what to do in the event of an accidental double touch, and Ifab has now said that referees had &#8220;understandably&#8221; been penalising players up to this point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The board added that Law 14&#8217;s primary purpose was to deal with deliberate double touches and a clarification has now been issued to all national associations and confederations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ifab acknowledged it would be unfair not to penalise a double touch at all and allow such kicks to stand as a goal, because goalkeepers can be disadvantaged by the altered trajectory of the ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it has now clarified that where an accidental &#8216;double-touch&#8217; kick is scored, it should be retaken rather than ruled out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Where such kicks are unsuccessful, an indirect free-kick will be given to the defending team if they occur in a match or be recorded as a miss if during a shootout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The clarified law will be effective from 1 July, but Ifab said it &#8220;may be used by competitions starting before that date&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Fifa Club World Cup takes place in the United States from 14 June-13 July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce80j3z34jno\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico enquired with Uefa about the validity of the decision to disallow Alvarez&#8217;s penalty but the governing body insisted that &#8220;under the current rule, the video assistant referee (VAR) had to call the referee signalling that the goal should be disallowed&#8221;. Article 14.1 states: &#8220;The kicker must not play the ball again until it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30598,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30596\/revisions\/30598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}