European football’s governing body UEFA will not be joining the global crackdown on time-wasting, as it believes the increasing amount of added-time being played in the Premier League and elsewhere is damaging player welfare. FIFA, UEFA’s international counterpart, has been encouraging match officials to add more time at half-time and full-time to compensate for the minutes taken out of the game by goal celebrations, substitutions and VAR checks. This led to matches at the men’s World Cup in Qatar last year routinely going beyond 100 minutes in total playing time and the International...
star was speaking at the launch of a pan-European recruitment drive for new referees that doubled up as a media briefing for how UEFA intends to referee its club and international games this season.
The Italian explained that UEFA is hosting a meeting of Europe’s leading referees at its headquarters in Nyon next week when it will tell them to hand out yellow cards to players who show dissent or crowd around a referee after a contentious decision. Any manager or coach who does this on the sidelines will be dismissed.
Making referees’ jobs on the pitch easier is one part of UEFA’s approach, the other is encouraging more youngsters and former players to try refereeing.
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