It could have been a revolution. But that won’t be the case. In February, the Telegraph dropped a small bombshell by revealing that football authorities were considering the introduction of a blue card, which would be synonymous with temporary expulsion for a player having committed an anti-playing foul.
Fifa immediately reacted by calming things down, and Gianni Infantino definitively buried the matter this week. “ There will be no blue cards at the elite level of football. It’s a subject that doesn’t exist for us,” declared Fifa President Gianni Infantino during a meeting of the International Football Association Board (IFAB) in Scotland.
“Red card to blue card”
“ Fifa is totally opposed to blue cardsInfantino repeated, just to be clear. I was not aware of this subject – as president of Fifa. I think that Fifa has a say within the IFAB (the body which governs the laws of football, editor’s note). If you want a title, it’s ‘the red card to the blue card’. »
“We are always open to ideas and proposals, but once we have examined them, we must also protect the essence and tradition of the game. There is no room for the blue card”concluded the manager, in comments reported by L’Equipe.
