Neymar becomes first player to be forced to leave pitch in new time-wasting rule

Santos captain, Neymar Jr, became the archetypal subordinate successful Brazil’s Serie A to beryllium forced to permission the tract for 1 infinitesimal owed to a caller regularisation designed to trim time-wasting by goalkeepers, which is presently being trialed successful the league.

As portion of this trial, which volition besides beryllium adopted successful different competitions specified arsenic the English Premier League, if play is stopped due to the fact that a goalkeeper needs aesculapian attention, the manager is required to promptly nominate an outfield subordinate to permission the transportation for 1 infinitesimal erstwhile play resumes.

Should the manager neglect to place a subordinate wrong 10 seconds, the team’s skipper volition beryllium obligated to permission the field.

This regularisation was archetypal applied successful the Brazilian apical part during Santos’ 3-0 triumph implicit Vasco connected Sunday erstwhile goalkeeper Gabriel Brazao sought aesculapian help.

The referee instructed skipper Neymar to permission the tract since the Santos manager failed to designate different subordinate wrong 10 seconds.

Neymar, 34, participated successful 2 matches for Brazil arsenic a substitute during this year’s World Cup, netting a precocious punishment successful their 2-1 decision against Norway successful the r...