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From: Werner Pichler on 3 Jun 2010 13:33
On 3 Jun., 17:40, Chagney Hunt <ess...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> So North Korea made a clever (mis)interpretation of the rules and took
> an extra striker as the 3rd goalie. FIFA went to work on the
> impertinence: "The three players listed as goalkeepers can only play
> as goalkeepers during the Fifa World Cup and cannot play outfield.
> This will be communicated to the teams in the team arrival meetings
> and will be enforced on match days."
>
> So it closed a potential loop hole (England take Huddlestone then
> invent an injury to fly Barry over as "replacement goal-keeper if he
> recovers in time), but what if a team gets so depleted by, say, food
> poisoning and has to start a goalie as outfielder?
>

IIRC this is what happened during the last EURO, when an injury-ridden
Turkey considered nominating their third goalkeeper Tolga Zengin as an
outfield player ahead of their semifinal match with Germany.
I don't think UEFA had a problem with that.

Ciao,
Werner
From: Dwight Beers on 4 Jun 2010 09:05
On 06/03/2010 10:13 AM, Paul C wrote:
>
> "Chagney Hunt" <essetm(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:48141d66-6696-4cd3-9162-c8e2eaa6fedd(a)q23g2000vba.googlegroups.com...
>>
> "The three players listed as goalkeepers can only play
>> as goalkeepers during the Fifa World Cup and cannot play outfield.
>
>
> Forwards will also be banned from defending.

Gee, I thought they already were. :-)
From: jvazquez on 4 Jun 2010 09:19
On 4 jun, 09:05, Dwight Beers <hdbe...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 10:13 AM, Paul C wrote:
>
>
>
> > "Chagney Hunt" <ess...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:48141d66-6696-4cd3-9162-c8e2eaa6fedd(a)q23g2000vba.googlegroups.com...
>
> > "The three players listed as goalkeepers can only play
> >> as goalkeepers during the Fifa World Cup and cannot play outfield.
>
> > Forwards will also be banned from defending.

Never mind, because according to the current trend, in a few years
teams will play without forwards.

Juan Vazquez

From: MH on 4 Jun 2010 12:51
Chagney Hunt wrote:
> So North Korea made a clever (mis)interpretation of the rules and took
> an extra striker as the 3rd goalie. FIFA went to work on the
> impertinence: "The three players listed as goalkeepers can only play
> as goalkeepers during the Fifa World Cup and cannot play outfield.
> This will be communicated to the teams in the team arrival meetings
> and will be enforced on match days."

This is ridiculous. Any player on the pitch is allowed to play as
goalkeeper (eg. in the event the goalkeeper is injured or sent off once
the three subs have been used up), so it should work both ways.


>
> So it closed a potential loop hole (England take Huddlestone then
> invent an injury to fly Barry over as "replacement goal-keeper if he
> recovers in time), but what if a team gets so depleted by, say, food
> poisoning and has to start a goalie as outfielder?
>
> Anyway, why is the squad size set at 23? Why not 25 (2 full teams plus
> an extra goalie)?
From: Chagney Hunt on 4 Jun 2010 14:09
On Jun 4, 12:51 pm, MH <MHnos...(a)ucalgary.ca> wrote:
> Chagney Hunt wrote:
> > So North Korea made a clever (mis)interpretation of the rules and took
> > an extra striker as the 3rd goalie. FIFA went to work on the
> > impertinence: "The three players listed as goalkeepers can only play
> > as goalkeepers during the Fifa World Cup and cannot play outfield.
> > This will be communicated to the teams in the team arrival meetings
> > and will be enforced on match days."
>
> This is ridiculous.  Any player on the pitch is allowed to play as
> goalkeeper (eg. in the event the goalkeeper is injured or sent off once
> the three subs have been used up), so it should work both ways.

Forced by the situation :-) They're not trying to tell where where to
play what, they just don't like someone starting 11 to have 2 players
designated as goal keepers when they have the entire squad to pick
from.

Apparently Ireland went to Italy with only 2 GKs and it wasn't a big
deal, but they brought only 22 players

http://www.planetworldcup.com/CUPS/1990/squad_ire90.html
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