Clément Turpin is among the privileged referees retained by FIFA to direct the debates during the Club World Cup. On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, the interested party was at work on the meeting of the first phase of the tournament between the South Koreans of Ulsan and the South Africans the Mamelodi Sundowns FC.
This poster concluded on the 1-0 score in favor of the Pretoria club gave birth to a historic scene, played by Clément Turpin himself. In the Money Time of the game, when there were ten minutes left, Ronwen Williams, the goalkeeper of the South African club, has broken one of the new rules decreed by FIFA.
Three months ago, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), which governs the laws of football as part of the International Federation, chose to limit the timing granted to goalkeepers to revive the game in hand. A constraint that escaped the last bulwark of the Mamelodi Sundowns.
Clément Turpin, international referee for 16 years
Clément Turpin therefore raged, thus applying the new rule – namely a corner for the opposing team as a sanction. Fortunately for the South Africans, their South Korean counterparts failed to take advantage of this bargain and therefore conceded the defeat a few minutes later.
The story will remember that Clément Turpin was therefore the first referee to put into practice in the official match the law of the eight seconds. A reason for potentially pride for the 43 -year -old official, an international referee stamped FIFA since 2009.
