{"id":289476,"date":"2011-03-04T16:41:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/04\/german-fa-appeals-to-fifa-to-overturn-double-punishment-rule\/"},"modified":"2011-03-04T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:41:40","slug":"german-fa-appeals-to-fifa-to-overturn-double-punishment-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/04\/german-fa-appeals-to-fifa-to-overturn-double-punishment-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"German FA Appeals To FIFA To Overturn &#8216;Double Punishment&#8217; Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div> Ahead of next week&#8217;s annual meeting of the International Football Association Board, the DFB (German FA) HAS announced that it will make an appeal to abolish the &#8216;double punishment&#8217; rule given for certain fouls in the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p>According to FIFA&#8217;s Laws of the Game, any foul committed inside the penalty area is punished with a penalty kick. Additionally, any foul committed on a player adjudged to have a clear path to goal is to be automatically punished with a red card. Accordingly, a foul inside the penalty box that also denies a clear chance on goal is punished with both a red card for the perpetrator and a penalty kick for the team that drew the foul.<\/p>\n<p>If the DFB has its way, only a spot-kick will be awarded for a foul inside the penalty area, even if the transgression denies a clear chance on goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/sports\/201103\/140981.php\" title=\"German FA Appeals To FIFA To Overturn 'Double Punishment' Rule\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German FA Appeals To FIFA To Overturn &#8216;Double Punishment&#8217; Rule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ahead of next week&#8217;s annual meeting of the International Football Association Board, the DFB (German FA) HAS announced that it will make an appeal to abolish the &#8216;double punishment&#8217; rule given for certain fouls in the penalty area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>German FA Appeals To FIFA To Overturn &#039;Double Punishment&#039; 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