“We acknowledged that saving a penalty by keeping two feet on the goalline until the taker kicks the ball makes the goalkeeper’s job almost impossible. If something is written in the laws of the gameit must be respected. It is not a matter of a small encroachment or big encroachment, it is a matter of encroachment, and this is what we can do by using technology.”
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