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Of course Wenger would want this... half of Walcott's offsides would have stood
A new experimentation on the Offside Rule will start on April 3, a project promoted and developed by FIFA and its Chief of Global Football Development Arsene Wenger. The FIGC immediately gave its willingness to experimentation in an official competition by identifying the National Under 18 Championship of Serie A and B organized by the Youth and School Sector to start the project with the support of the Italian Referees Association.
The trial provides that a player is no longer considered punishable if any part of the body with which he can score a goal is in line with the penultimate defender. So to be sanctioned an offside between the attacker in the most advanced position and the defender there must be the so-called light, that is to say they must be visually separated. This change is intended to help increase the chances of scoring goals and make the game more exciting.