Never seen: why France was able to make seven changes during the World Cup final?

Never seen: why France was able to make seven changes during the World Cup final?

At that point, everyone was surprised because the seventh was the one that did not enter into the usual calculations of football matches with extra time.

The reason France was able to make seven changes in the World Cup final

The explanation was that the substitution of rabiot for fofana had entered into the protocol “concussion surrogate”, which allows you to replace a player at risk of concussion without computing either the window or the number of the substituted player. This is an exception that FIFA had entered for this world and that he had already put into practice from the Club World Cup of 2021.

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It was on January 8, 2021 when the body that governs world soccer approved the ‘shock protocol’ to be able to make substitutions due to concussion or suspicion of cerebral cerebral during the Club World Cupwhich was held from February 1 to 11 in Qatar. It was the first international competition in which this procedure was put into practice.

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