MLS, the professional soccer league in the United States, will have five new rules in the 2024 season that aim to make the game faster and with fewer stops, thus combating anti-gambling, considered by many to be the great scourge of this season . Show.
The measure that will initially have the most impact has to do with the time players need to leave the field when they are substituted. Therefore, to put an end to the slowness of the athletes of the winning teams, the referee will give them 10 seconds to leave the four lines. If this is not done, the offending team will be forced to remain with 10 players for one minute. There are only two exceptions, which have to do with injured football players and goalkeeper substitutions.
If a player complains of an injury and is on the ground for more than 15 seconds, the referee will have to stop the match so that the doctor can enter the field to assess the athlete. This will be removed from the field and must remain. at least two minutes free for assessment and treatment. It is therefore a measure to inhibit the simulation of injuries.
Still regarding physical problems, when two opponents suffer head injuries and require off-field treatment, they may only return to the match at the same time, after evaluation by their respective doctors.
Another novelty in MLS matches will be a replica of what already exists in rugby, as the decisions of the video referee (VAR) will be announced in real time by the match referee to the spectators, something currently under evaluation by the International Board (IFAB ), the entity that makes the laws of world football.
The final rule concerns the clarity of the extra time given by the referees, which is now counted via the stadium markings, which currently stop at the 45th or 90th minute depending on whether the match takes place in the first or second half, but which in the In the new season it only stops when the referee blows his whistle for half time or the end.
The 2024 MLS, which will be played by 29 teams and will feature Lionel Messi (Inter Miami), will therefore have an advantage over the rest of the world competitions, in a clear attempt to make football more attractive in a country that is only now starting to change. wake up, they call it football.
Source: DN
