Do you want USL to use FIFA new offside rule that favors attackers in 2022 season?

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Do you want USL to use FIFA new offside rule that favors attackers in 2022 season?

  1. Yes

    3 vote(s)
    75.0%
  2. No

    1 vote(s)
    25.0%
  1. vevo5

    vevo5 Member

    Nov 23, 2011
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The purpose of the offside rule is to prevent goal-hanging.

    Current Offside Rule:
    The law states that a player is in an offside position if any of their body parts, except the hands and arms, are in the opponents' half of the pitch, and closer to the opponents' goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent (the last opponent is usually, but not necessarily, the goalkeeper)

    New offside Rule (Wenger offside rule) that FIFA is trialing: You're onside if any part of your body you can play the ball with is inline with the defender.


    An example:

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    This is currently offside but it would be onside with the new offside rule. The attacker scored the goal by the way. Got called offside.


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    This rule change is not about VAR.

    It's about FIFA wanting to have more attacking football.

    FIFA president:

    "We have been seeing that maybe we can think about a new law which allows a bit more attack in football.

    "And Arsene Wenger presented to us today as well what this could look like and obviously, in summary, it is if the attacking player is ahead of the last defender, or second-last player, but still with one part of the body that can score inline with the defender.

    "So it is giving the attacking player a bit more room and so favouring attacking football. Obviously such a change would need to be tested. We have to see what kind of impact this will have on the game - if positive, if negative.



    Offside rules intend to prevent players from “goal-hanging” – staying near the opponent's goal and waiting for the ball to be passed to then directly score a goal. This was considered to be unsportsmanlike and make the game boring. In contrast, the offside rules force players not to get ahead of the ball, and thus favour dribbling the ball and short passes over few long passes.

    This new offside rule prevent goal-hanging just as well as the old offside rules.
     
  2. vevo5

    vevo5 Member

    Nov 23, 2011
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Survey about this new offside change FIFA is trialing:
    https://www.strawpoll.me/45194826

    More goals per match: 128 votes (86%)
    Less goals per match: 21 votes (14%)






    This report gives more details about the evolution of offside and this new offside rule


    In 1990, IFAB declared that an attacker level with the second-last defender is onside, whereas previously such a player had been considered offside. This change, proposed by the Scottish FA, was made in order to "encourage the attacking team" by "giving the attacking player an advantage over the defender.

    This result in an increase in goals per match for English First Division

    1989-1990: 2.59 goals per match
    1990-1991: 2.76 goals per match





    https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...-rule-favours-attacking-football-b922456.html

    Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has presented his plans to change the offside law to football’s lawmakers, and Fifa president Gianni Infantino believes it would create more attacking games.

    Wenger, who is Fifa's Chief of Global Football Development, has come with a new law that would change that.

    Wenger presented his plans to football’s lawmakers, International Football Association Board (Ifab), at their AGM on Friday and the new interpretation of the rule will be trialled in the lower leagues of Chinese football.

    “Our aim as Ifab, and I am speaking under the control of my colleagues from Ifab, is always to see if we can make football more attractive - without changing the nature, obviously, of football,” said Infantino.



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    2021: trial in lower leagues of Chinese football
    2022: Could USL talk to FIFA and make it happen for 2022 season?
     

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