Just in case you don’t know, the Paradinha involves the penalty taker trying to fool the keeper with a false move. What a shame FIFA’s intervention was too late to prevent this keeper from falling over and breaking his arm after being beaten by what is now an illegal penalty kick.
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They've only banned feints once you've actually reached the ball, you can still do it in the run-up. Top keepers will learn to expect the odd feint on the run up al la Ronaldo.
Also it depends on how the Refs enforce it. At which point does a run up feint become a kick the ball feint?
All seems a bit iffy to me - rather they'd just clamp down in keepers moving off their line.
Thanks Ben. It's a typical FIFA cock-up. Announce a policy change weeks before a World Cup and then wonder why the new rule is interpreted in lots of different ways by different referees. Not clever.
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