Tuesday, June 25, 2019

105: Alternative to Current Soccer's Penalty Foul System

Soccer rules regarding the Fouls in the Penalty Area may need to change. It is like an all or nothing system which seems impractical. One could as well make a rule that the first team making any violation losses the game but it also seems impractical. Instead, an alternative system incorporating that a Penalty kick could be awarded for accumulation of multiple violations in the Penalty Area, instead of just one, seems to make more sense. Such system can be applied for, for example, the first 75 minuets of a match while the last 15 minutes follows the current rule of one Penalty per each violation. An alternative or in combination with this time division thing could be to make accumulation of violations  for a Penalty carried against the violating team to other matches like Soccer Green Cards or even more so by making them accumulate through different official tournaments. 

The Penalty rules of  soccer might have survived throughout all this time probably because it was not applied even close to this sensitivity with the current VAR system. I had not watched much soccer for decades until last year when I decided to watch that world cup. I used to see Penalties so rarely given that one can use them to point very selectively to a specific match. Now, it is hard to imagine such identification for even a line of  three matches or less in a tournament. 

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