FIFA wants to change the offside rules: it plans to determine it by the attacker's far leg. But there are still questions

Italian Sky Sport has shared an interesting insight: FIFA plans to test a new system of determination ” out of the game”. According to it, the offside line should be drawn along the far leg of the attacking player and along the most “advanced” point of the defender. If there is a gap – offside. So they plan to get rid of confusion with parts of the body that may or may not be on the sidelines (shoulder and arm). And to simplify the task for the linesman.

In the screenshot below, there is a gap between the attacker’s far leg and the defender’s extreme point – a key criterion for the test rules. If the attacking player was half a step closer to the center, he could avoid offside, even though his body is in front of the defender.

Attention: this is not an official screenshot – just a rendering of a Sky Italia insider that has not yet been confirmed by FIFA.

Now, in order to get into an offside position, the attacker only needs to be in front of the defender with any part of the body, except for the arms. So jokes about Zlatan’s nose going offside are not such jokes.

Journalists from Sky Sport report that Italy has already provided an opportunity to experiment with this proposal: the federation offered to test the innovation from the next season in the U18 youth championship with the involvement of judges from the Series C. Experiments with the rules are not alien to Italian football at all – earlier it was in Italy that the VAR technology was first tested.

But there are also questions about this system. For example, how the clearance will be determined. Is a centimeter a gap? A millimeter? What if the striker is facing the goal and the defender is sideways?

So far, the information about the new offside rules is only of an insider nature – FIFA has not commented on anything. When the organization is ready to submit a new plan, we will surely see an explanation of these details.

Obviously, FIFA is not very happy with the current rules and is looking for ways to improve them. Earlier this season, the Premier League made thicker offside lines – 20 canceled goals last season would count.

And Wenger generally advocated a radical change in the offside rule. Arsen said:

“You are out of the game now if any part of your body that can score a goal is closer to the goal than the defender. I would like the offside position not to be recorded if at least one of the playing parts of the attacker’s body is in line with the defender (and all other parts of the body are closer to the goal).

This may be too much of an advantage for the forwards because it forces the defenders to act higher. ”

You can’t stand in someone else’s wall – because of this, the gorgeous goal of Krasnodar was canceled. Spieich broke a rule he didn’t even know about