FIFA has ordered soccer players to keep their shirts on during matches

[DennisM]

FIFA has ordered soccer players to keep their shirts on during matches and banned all celebratory post-goal stripteases.

Here's the article:

http://www.foxsportsworld.com/content/view?contentId=1504298

[Excape Goat]

"There were several awkward situations at the Confederations Cup,"' he told the Swiss newspaper Blick. "One player needed five minutes to put his jersey back on because his vest was sewn into it."


This must be a Nike shirt.....

[kc123]

I think that was an adidas jersey. In the France vs New Zealand match, Cisse took off his jersey after he scored a goal, but he couldn't put the jersey back on by himself so he ran to the sideline and the assistant coach helped him to put it back on.

[MD_05]

so what happens to landon donovan next time he scores and rips his shirt off?

[riverplate]

From the New York Times, Thursday, July 3:

FIFA TELLS PLAYERS: KEEP YOUR SHIRTS ON

FIFA's executive committee decided last Saturday that players must keep their shirts on during games and banned all celebratory postgoal stripping.

"There were several awkward situations at the Confederations Cup," FIFA's president, Joseph S. Bladder, was quoted as saying in the Swiss newspaper Blick yesterday. "One player needed five minutes to put his jersey back on because his vest was sewn into it."

FIFA first introduced the ban on shirt removal in 1996 but then relaxed it. Details of the new regulation will be distributed shortly to national soccer associations before the upcoming season. Players who ignore the new regulation risk receiving a yellow card.



Is Sepp a wet blanket or what?

[PumaBear]

FIFA are a bunch of idiots

[house18]

I think this is good. I have seen way to many players take forever to get their jersey's back on after a goal because of the new two-peice jerseys. A good celebration is fun, but not when it holds up the game for five or ten minutes!

[B McBones]

Originally posted by house18
I think this is good. I have seen way to many players take forever to get their jersey's back on after a goal because of the new two-peice jerseys. A good celebration is fun, but not when it holds up the game for five or ten minutes!

I don't really have a feeling either way on this issue, but the people who argue for it should realize, that one player with his(her) jersey off should not hold up the game for 5 or 10 minutes, if the player can't get the jersey back on right away, they need to leave the field, fix it, and get the referee's permission to re-enter the field.
Thats my 2 cents...

[Excape Goat]

Originally posted by B McBones
I don't really have a feeling either way on this issue, but the people who argue for it should realize, that one player with his(her) jersey off should not hold up the game for 5 or 10 minutes, if the player can't get the jersey back on right away, they need to leave the field, fix it, and get the referee's permission to re-enter the field.
Thats my 2 cents...

they did that during WC 2002. I missed Cisse's celebration. It muts be fun....

A.J Wood once upon a time threw his jersey into the stand.... he had to ask it back because he still had a game to play.

[Bauvafa]

I think it was starting to get out of hand so they need to keep it clean. Imagine if soccer players started doing the NFL type of dance & celeberation after each goal!!!! It lowers the game regardless of soccer or NFL football or any other sport. A bit of respect for the oponent has always been a part of sportsmanship why lose it now?

[patrickm]

i just love david beckham's abs.

sincerely,

elton john

[mickhayafe]

well, i think that taking off the shirts is not the issue, it's putting them back on. w/ the shirts like they are now, i think it's appropriate not to take it off for respect for your team. they didn't stop the game, france played w/ 10 men until he got it back on.

[afgrijselijkheid]

since when was paul tagliabue on the Fifa rules board?

Originally posted by Bauvafa
I think it was starting to get out of hand so they need to keep it clean. Imagine if soccer players started doing the NFL type of dance & celeberation after each goal!!!!


what?!? every 2.7 times a game?!?


It lowers the game regardless of soccer or NFL football or any other sport. A bit of respect for the oponent has always been a part of sportsmanship why lose it now?


why does it need to be this? i view it as a celebration or expression of joy - i see a lot more taunting in the NBA, NHL or NFL - hell when i played hockey i would do it, but i never have in a soccer match

just for the record... i am not a shirt removing goalscorer - thank you

[Bauvafa]

why does it need to be this? i view it as a celebration or expression of joy - i see a lot more taunting in the NBA, NHL or NFL - hell when i played hockey i would do it, but i never have in a soccer match
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The reason NBA, NFL, NHL have got out of control is because the officials in those leagues didn't move fast enough and eventually the purity of a clean celebration has turned into premeditated acts & rituals for the sake of TAUNTING!!

[Excape Goat]

I like the NFL celebration. I love Owen, Deion, Michael Irvin, etc.

[JJ Mindset]

I knew something had to be done about this when, upon viewing several games, I noticed that players insist on taking off their shirt that they even push fellow teammates who wanted to congratulate them aside so that they can do their thing. Whatever.

Also, it should cut down on the senseless advertising like "Jesus Saved Me" and all that other crap. Sorry but I don't want to see ads promoting bad comedians, the new N'Suck tour, psychic readings, the Thighmaster, greasy lawyers, bad candy and bad jewelry after a goal. I already have seen more than enough on regular TV.

[AvidSinger]

Does this new rule also apply to women's football?

[Revelian]

Maybe we should have the best of both worlds. How about if players were allowed to take their shirts off, but had until kick-off to put it back on. If by that time, the player is not wearing the shirt by that time, for any reason, he may then be issued with a yellow card. There! Now if a tosser at FIFA could come up with that we'd have no problem.

BUT, everyone at FIFA is a tosser - plain, simple and telling it like it is. You only have to look at how they've made the game into a reverse-touch rugby game. People who are seen as heroes and role models falling like they've been shot - sickening. And Rivaldo, that wanker. A true ambassador for the sport, dropping to the floor just to get a Turkish player sent off in the World Cup. That is not football. So what do FIFA do, in their ultimate wisdom? £5,000 fine wasn't it? That's just pocket change to Rivaldo.

FIFA spend half their time doing photo opportunities (like standing next to a Ugandan kid with a football - which is nice to see, I guess) and the other half coming up with shite rules.

How can taking your shirt off be a bad thing? Do people complain when swimmers don't wear t-shirts? No, obviously, so what is the point in FIFA making a ruling like this? Banning an expression of joy (Trezeguet, Giggs, etc.) WANKERS, WANKERS, WANKERS.

Bonjour, nous sommes FIFA (F***ing Idiots who know ****************** All)

Sepp Blatter has his own thread on this site, where you can register your hatred. Fight the power.....did I just say that?

Revelian

[beachesl]

Originally posted by AvidSinger
Does this new rule also apply to women's football?

Yes, it does, the ruling applies to all FIFA events, and indirectly to any other soccer matches.

In fact, word is that the Chastain incident at the last Woman's World Cup make have made it an issue now, as well as the fact that the World Youth Cup is being held in an Arab country where a bare torso, male or female, is considered highly offensive ( a note of warning to those attending the WYC in the UAE...generally a very and friendly tolerant country for westerners, westerners have been arrested for not having shirts on off the beach, especially Sharjah which has a very fundamentalist regime...I know, I've lived there, and have been stopped by the police just for wearing shorts).

It's too bad, I like a little celebration, and there is something liberatingly refreshing about whipping the old shirt off!

[Revelian]

Eat football,
Drink football,
Sleep football,
Hate FIFA.

Revelian