By Brian Homewood
ZURICH Sat Mar 1, 2014 6:52am EST
<span id="articleText"><span id="midArticle_start"/> ZURICH (Reuters) - Players will no longer be able to raise their shirts and reveal a slogan or message on an undergarment following a ruling by soccer's rule-making body, the International Football Association Board, on Saturday.
<span id="midArticle_1"/>Overt slogans have long been banned by FIFA, world soccer's governing authority, but players often lift up their shirts after scoring to show other messages.
<span id="midArticle_2"/>"From now on there can be no slogan or image whatsoever on undergarments even good-natured ones. This will apply from June 1 and be in force for the World Cup," FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke told a news conference after an IFAB meeting.
<span id="midArticle_3"/>IFAB rejected a proposal from European soccer's ruling body UEFA to review the so-called 'triple punishment' where a player is sent off, concedes a penalty and is suspended for stopping an obvious goalscoring opportunity.
<span id="midArticle_4"/>The Board also sanctioned the official use of headwear for women, after an experiment, and men, while experiments will continue on the use of sinbins.
<span id="midArticle_5"/>There will be no extension in the use of technology which will be restricted to goal-line verdicts only, Valcke said.
<span id="midArticle_6"/>IFAB, comprising the four British associations and four representatives of FIFA, sanctions and changes the laws which, Valcke added, are undergoing a revision to make their meaning clearer internationally.
<span id="midArticle_7"/>The World Cup in Brazil starts in June.
<span id="midArticle_8"/>(Reporting by Mike Collett; editing by Tony Jimenez)
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ZURICH Sat Mar 1, 2014 6:52am EST
<span id="articleText"><span id="midArticle_start"/> ZURICH (Reuters) - Players will no longer be able to raise their shirts and reveal a slogan or message on an undergarment following a ruling by soccer's rule-making body, the International Football Association Board, on Saturday.
<span id="midArticle_1"/>Overt slogans have long been banned by FIFA, world soccer's governing authority, but players often lift up their shirts after scoring to show other messages.
<span id="midArticle_2"/>"From now on there can be no slogan or image whatsoever on undergarments even good-natured ones. This will apply from June 1 and be in force for the World Cup," FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke told a news conference after an IFAB meeting.
<span id="midArticle_3"/>IFAB rejected a proposal from European soccer's ruling body UEFA to review the so-called 'triple punishment' where a player is sent off, concedes a penalty and is suspended for stopping an obvious goalscoring opportunity.
<span id="midArticle_4"/>The Board also sanctioned the official use of headwear for women, after an experiment, and men, while experiments will continue on the use of sinbins.
<span id="midArticle_5"/>There will be no extension in the use of technology which will be restricted to goal-line verdicts only, Valcke said.
<span id="midArticle_6"/>IFAB, comprising the four British associations and four representatives of FIFA, sanctions and changes the laws which, Valcke added, are undergoing a revision to make their meaning clearer internationally.
<span id="midArticle_7"/>The World Cup in Brazil starts in June.
<span id="midArticle_8"/>(Reporting by Mike Collett; editing by Tony Jimenez)
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