With drag-flicks changing into highly effective with every passing day and defenders in desperation placing their our bodies in line to dam them from going in direction of the objective, penalty nook routines have gotten harmful for gamers.
The defenders too are pressured to make use of a lot of protecting gears to safeguard themselves, resembling characters from sci-fi motion pictures.
To deal with such points, the worldwide hockey federation (FIH) is about to launch a world penalty nook session undertaking to collect enter from throughout the hockey world on how we are able to keep the joy and spectacle of the penalty nook set-piece.
The Government Board of the FIH in a digital assembly on Friday authorised the undertaking which will even counsel measures for decreasing the potential hazard for defenders and the necessity for a considerable amount of protecting tools to be worn in the course of the penalty nook set-piece.
“The EB has authorised to launch a world Penalty Nook session undertaking, to collect enter from throughout the hockey world on how we are able to keep the joy and spectacle of the penalty nook set-piece, while decreasing the potential hazard for defenders and the necessity for a considerable amount of protecting tools to be worn,” the FIH knowledgeable in a launch on Friday.
“This session undertaking may result in trials of recent guidelines, however no everlasting rule change might be applied till not less than after the Olympic Video games Paris 2024,” the discharge stated.
The FIH had earlier this yr modified the principles and allowed gamers defending penalty corners to maintain the protecting tools on even after the ball goes outdoors the hanging circle.
The FIH Government Board on Friday obtained stories on the preparation standing of the upcoming FIH occasions, together with the FIH Hockey Girls’s Junior World Cup South Africa 2021, which is able to begin on April 1 on the North-West College of Potchefstroom.
The FIH has additionally expressed its full solidarity with Ukraine, whose workforce is dealing with issues in making ready and attending to South Africa for the occasion after Russia’s invasion of their nation.
The FIH had on March 3 withdrawn Russia’s invitation and invited Austria to switch them.
“FIH has been in common contact with the Hockey Affiliation of Ukraine to supply any help it may to the Ukrainian workforce, whose participation within the upcoming FIH Hockey Girls’s Junior World Cup isn’t confirmed at this stage. Moreover, FIH has prolonged its appreciation and because of the Hockey Associations of Poland and the Netherlands for the help they’ve been offering to Ukrainian hockey,” the FIH stated within the launch.
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