A recent FIFA law change regarding goal kicks resulted in a rather interesting piece of rule bending today, by Portuguese team Benfica on 28th. The rules state that goal kicks no longer need to leave the area, and as such here we see Benfica goalkeeper Odisseas Vlachodimos flick the ball to a centreback who then heads it back to him. This allows the keeper to then throw the ball in something of a surprise to the opposing side!
Sortie de balle 6 mètres🤔 pic.twitter.com/tgXv7WaoIh
— La Gazette Tactique (@Gazettetactique) July 29, 2019
Whether this cheely method of avoiding the back pass rule will be stamped out is anyone’s guess, though perhaps it can be considered unsporting behavior!
There were ugly scenes at the World Aquatics Championships today, when bronze medal winner Britain’s Duncan Scott refused to share a podium with winner of the event, Sun Yang. The Chinese athlete has failed a drugs test for banned stimulant trimetazidine in 2014. Yang angrily lashed out at the Brit during the medal ceremony and called him a loser.
It’s not the first time this championships that an athlete has refused to share a podium with Sun Yang. In the 400m freestyle on the 22nd, Silver medal winner aussie Mack Horton refused to share a podium with Sun and had previously labelled him a “drug cheat”. The two have history prior to these championships, held in South Korean. During the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Horton stated of Sun, ” I don’t have time or respect for drug cheats.”
Check out this report on Mack Horton’s protest:
I didn’t upload this. I can’t claim to even know what game this is from, but I don’t what’s important. I know that, as the uploader stated, if this guy had bigger balls this wouldn’t ever have happened!
