Comments on: Look who’s back… again.

By: hastaelgolsiempre

hastaelgolsiempre — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:20:11 +0000

Ursus – I’ve just found your linked comment in my spam. WordPress was being slightly over-zealous, it seems. Apologies for it being so late now, but it’s with us now.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:00:55 +0000

I was only watching out of the corner of my eye, but it didn’t look like that much of a “stop” to me, and FIFA’s official Q&A to the Laws of the Game expressly allow a penalty taker to “feint” during his run-up.

I’ve tried posting the link twice, but the system seems not to like that. It is Q&A 13 to Law 14, in a document that is available on FIFA’s website.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:58:25 +0000

I was only watching out of the corner of my eye, but it didn’t look like that much of a “stop” to me, and FIFA’s official Q&A on the Laws of the Game expressly allow the penalty taker to “feint”.

See Q&A 13 to Law 14 here:
http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/federation/q&a2006%5fe%5f1586.pdf

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:26:59 +0000

According to the reports I read, Ortega stopped his penalty run-up and re-started once the goalkeeper had committed himself. I think that’s unfair but I can’t find any reference to the tactic in the Laws of the game. Does anyone know what the position is?

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:15:18 +0000

Ah, this is getting more complicated.

A dozen Caribineri “visited” the municipal records office in the town where Carizzo’s ancestors are supposedly from, and have seized all of the related documents as part of an investigation into possible fraud in his application for Italian citizenship.

I think it is very unlikely that he will be turning out for Lazio this year, but the Italian reports say that his sale by River wasn’t conditioned on him getting Italian nationality, so that they aren’t required to take him back.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:50:08 +0000

Quite true. Carrizo’s “last” Italian relative is supposed to have left Piemonte for Argentina in 1870 (before the process of Italian unification was complete), and it seems that the documentation provided so far may not be conclusive enough to prove that Carrizo is “really Italian”.

It goes without saying that Lazio are especially sensitive about this issue, as they were the epicentre of the fake passport scandal of several years ago, which involved Veron, Recoba and a host of others.

By: Noe

Noe — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:17:31 +0000

I don’t know if you read or knew about this…Do you know that former goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo might come back to play in River as a loan from Lazio? It’s HILARIOUS (at the very least) Aparently, Carrizo is having troubles with his italian passport to get the citizenship, since the only italian bond is a greatgreatgrandfather or something like that. Lazio doesn’t want to send him to another italian club. So, the joke is on River and there’s a chance he’ll be back in Buenos Aires.