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Orange card and sin bin: future plans of candidate Fifa president Jérôme Champagne

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Jerome Champagne wants orange cards in football.

Jerome Champagne wants orange cards in football.

Candidate Fifa president Jérôme Champagne launched his future plans to make Fifa an organisation of the 21st century. He wants to introduce an orange card and a sin bin for players.

Champagne got backed up for his candidacy by Brazilian World Class player Pelé. The Frenchman helped run Blatter’s 2002 election campaign. Champagne wants to reform Fifa and bring more democracy in the world football organisation. There are also a few things he wants to modernise refereeing.

What do you think of the following suggestions:

  • introducing sin-bins by way of an orange card. He mentioned the example of a player who had already been booked then receiving a second yellow card from the referee for taking off his shirt to celebrate a goal.
  • the use of technology for offsides and penalty decisions. And not just the hawk-eye system that is now tested by several football associations.
  • the implementation of rugby’s rule permitting only the captain to approach the referee and free-kicks advanced 10 yards for any dissent.
  • No longer a so-called ‘triple punishment’ for last-man fouls in the penalty box. That means that players couldn’t get a red card for denying a goal-scoring opportunity plus a penalty kick against his team.

View the interview with Champagne below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBTI4vMb370

Referees in the media (week 3)

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‘Referees in the media’ will be published at the beginning of the week on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading.

“We should reflect on the experience tennis and rugby on their own methods including temporary exclusions (the sin bin), public explanation of referee’s decisions, or rugby’s penalty try for example.”

FIFA’s former director of international relations Jerome Champagne has suggested changes in the world governing body in an interview with Reuters.

“I’ll take all necessary measures to clear my name. What they did is so sneaky.”

Says Bulgarian referee Raicho Raichev about Luchezar Yonov, a suspended referee, who used Raichev’s name to officiate the friendly match between Werder Bremen and AZ Alkmaar.

“It’s not about me, it’s about the team. And as a team we are responsible for the matches.”

European Championship referee Björn Kuipers after the Dutch training camp in Belek, Turkey.

“As you know, football is not just for the players, teams or coaches but also the referees who also have the desire to excel.”

Asian female referees want to be world’s number one someday, says AFC Referees Director Yoshimi Ogawa.