{"id":16217,"date":"2024-02-09T08:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T08:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/fifa-makes-clarification-on-introducing-blue-cards-in-football\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T08:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T08:02:34","slug":"fifa-makes-clarification-on-introducing-blue-cards-in-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/fifa-makes-clarification-on-introducing-blue-cards-in-football\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA makes clarification on introducing blue cards in football"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>FIFA has hit out at \u2018incorrect and premature\u2019 reports regarding the immediate use of blue cards in elite football competition.<\/p>\n<p>Reports emerged on Friday that the International Football Association Board (Ifab) had signed off on the trials, with an official announcement due on Friday (today).<\/p>\n<p>It would be the first time since the introduction of the classic yellow and red cards at the 1970 World Cup that a new card would be used in football.<\/p>\n<p>However, following an immediate backlash to the plans, FIFA has now released a statement clarifying their intentions.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s football governing body played down the likelihood of seeing them introduced in elite football any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFIFA wishes to clarify that reports of the so-called \u2018blue card\u2019 at elite levels of football are incorrect and premature,\u201d the statement partly read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny such trials, if implemented, should be limited to testing in a responsible manner at lower levels, a position that FIFA intends to reiterate when this agenda item is discussed at the IFAB AGM on 2 March.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FIFA makes clarification on introducing blue cards in football<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA has hit out at \u2018incorrect and premature\u2019 reports regarding the immediate use of blue cards in elite football competition.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3803,15,160],"tags":[3805,180,201],"class_list":["post-16217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fifa","category-news","category-sport","tag-fifa","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}