Valencia takes the first step to avoid humiliating defeats

The general assembly of the Valencian Community Soccer Federation (FFCV) has approved for the training categories elimination of the general goal difference criterion to elucidate tiebreakers in cases of final equalized points in those categories in which it is mandatory for all those included in the scoresheet of each team to play, in order to avoid big wins and humiliating situations that demotivate children in the practice of soccer.

Federal sources explained that The measure is aimed at soccer-8 matches and classifications and the categories of children and cadets in the First and Second Regional in which on more than one occasion some teams have sought great goals against weak rivals in order to place their favor the goal difference in the face of a possible final draw on points against more powerful rivals, which has come to cause scandal results.

Article 285 of the general regulations of the FFCV considered as a second criterion for the resolution of ties to points in the final classification of a competition the overall difference in goals for and against, a record that has now been suppressed.

In the new articles, approved by the board of the federation that presides Salvador Gomar, the criteria are specified in this regard for resolve ties to points from direct confrontation between the contending teams, whether there are two or if this number is increased in order to avoid bulky marker situations such as those that have occurred on more than one occasion.