Alireza Beiranvand, Iran’s goalkeeper, was prostrate on the grass being watched and, on the giant screen of the stadium, you could read “suspected concussion”???????? The former Boavista goalkeeper collided violently with a teammate and was bleeding profusely from his nose. He tried to stay on the field but ended up being substituted and, thus, placed the team led by Carlos Queiroz in the history of the World Cups: he was the first to do so six substitutions in the same match????????
The rule has already been tested in the 2020 Club World Cup and is being tested again in the Qatar tournament: all teams will have the right to an extra replacement, in addition to the five defined, if a concussion is suspected, that is, a change in mental function or level of consciousness caused by head trauma. A decision that is based on the increase in the number of head butts during matches.
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The FIFA protocol, cited by the Brazilian press, indicates that the diagnosis of the injury will be made by the team’s own doctor and another, a representative of the organization, who will witness the matches on the pitch. Another FIFA doctor will be in the stands watching the game and making sure that no head collision between two athletes goes unanalyzed. Always according to the same information, the protocol allows about three minutes for a questionnaire that allows physicians to assess a possible concussion or disorientation state of the athlete????????
However, despite the fact that the protocol was used for the first time, the delay in performing the replacement was criticized, even being described as “total shame”. Speaking to The Athletic, the interim chief executive of Headway, the British brain injury association, had no hesitation in considering that the first test of the protocol was an “abject failure”???????? “The player was clearly distraught and unable to continue. It seems the case of one more decision made by the footballer and not by the coaching staff”, defended Luke Griggs. “It was irrelevant that he left a minute later. He shouldn’t have stayed on the field for a second, let alone a minute,” he concluded.
Source: Observadora
