Khaberni - In a surprising development that shook the corridors of global refereeing, the famous white foam spray gradually began to disappear from football pitches, not for the development of an alternative technology, but to escape from a stormy financial and legal crisis.
The details of the incident go back to a huge debt of 40 million dollars owed by FIFA to the inventors of this spray, according to the Zona Concacaf account on the X platform.
Despite the promises made by the federation to pay the amount after the 2014 World Cup finals, the money never reached its owners, which pushed the case into the courts.
Judicial conviction and decision to withdraw
It continued that a Brazilian court issued a verdict condemning FIFA for acting in bad faith in this case.
Despite the federation's attempts to circumvent the ruling by filing an appeal, it lost the legal battle again. Instead of settling the crisis financially, FIFA chose to stop using the spray in several official competitions. This was a strategic move aimed at stopping the accumulation of legal liabilities and financial compensations demanded by the inventors.
Chaos returns to free kicks and human walls
This decision led to the return of "chaos" within the penalty area and during the execution of free kicks, where players took advantage of the absence of white marks to move forward and exceed legal distances within human walls without the referees being able to control them accurately as before.
The report concludes that FIFA has effectively taken over the innovation without paying the financial compensation, which has placed the integrity of the commercial institution under the microscope of harsh criticism.
