One of the features of the Qatar World Cup is the extremely long extra time.
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The chairman of the refereeing committee, Mr. Coleraine, said that this is a requirement of FIFA for the license to increase the validity of the time.
Colonna said that in the past, the effective time of soccer matches was insufficient, with some less than 50 minutes, and that the international
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I have always wanted to solve this problem: in the past, whenever a player was injured, only one minute of extra time would be added, which is obviously not enough, and each replacement would add 30 seconds, so the above method is outdated.
He said: this year, each team can change 5 persons, and there is VAR video referee, so the extra time guideline has to be recalculated, and the celebration after scoring, this is an important moment, the scoring side needs to celebrate, but for the losing side, it is a precious few minutes.
The referee will have the right to decide on extra time, and the fourth referee will be able to assist: in the World Cup in Qatar, the average time of extra time is 10 minutes per match, which is more than the average time of the World Cup in Russia.
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The longest extra time in the World Cup was 23 minutes between Iran and England, but that match was special, with many goals and long injuries.
So far in this year's World Cup, the average effective time per game is 59 minutes, the longest is 67 minutes and the shortest is 55 minutes, which seems to be not bad.