Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Jamie Rudd. This is the messy effect. And
today we've got two football legends taking over national teams,
a rule change that could make fake injuries even more awkward,
and a fifty nine year old striker reminding everybody that
football has no age limit. Let's get into it. The
lead is Xinidin Zidan taking charge of France. The former
Real Madrid manager and France captain has been confirmed as
the new head coach of Lais Blue, replacing Didier de
Cham after France's World Cup semi final defeat to Spain.
Zidan has been out of management since leaving Real Madrid
in twenty twenty one, but the job has always felt
like his destiny. He won three Champions League titles in
a row with Madrid, he knows the pressure of the
French national team better than almost anyone, and now he
gets the chance to build the next generation of Lay Blue.
It is an extraordinary week for international football. Yeajen Klopp
has taken the Germany job and now Zidan has taken France.
Two of the biggest names in the modern game are
back in the dugout at the same time, both with
four year projects and both trying to rebuild major football
nations after disappointing World Cups. The next chapter of the
rivalry between Germany and France just got a lot more
interesting now to a rule change that is already causing
arguments before the season even starts. English Football is trialing
a new goalkeeper tactical time out rule, beginning with the
League Cup on August first. If a goalkeeper goes down
and needs treatment, the coach has ten seconds to choose
an outfield player to leave the pitch for one minute.
The idea is to punish teams for using fake goalkeeper
injuries to slow the game down or get tactical instructions
from the bench, but it also creates a strange new question.
Who does the coach sacrifice and what what happens if
the injury is completely legitimate. Expect players, managers and supporters
to have strong opinions almost immediately. The rule is part
of a wider English football trial involving the Premier League,
the EFL, the Women's Super League and the Football Association.
It is an attempt to deal with one of football's
oldest dark arts without simply adding more stoppage time. Whether
it works or creates an even bigger spectacle is going
to be one of the most entertaining experiments of the
new season. And finally, the feel good story of the
day belongs to Kazu Yoshimura, better known as King Kazu.
At fifty nine years old, the world's oldest professional footballer
scored his first competitive goal in nearly four years. Mira
struck in the fifty c second minute for Fukushima United
as they demolished Iwaki Furukawa seven zero in the Emperor's Cup.
He joined the Jayla League third division club at the
start of the year, and he is still finding ways
to make football history. Fifty nine years old, still scoring,
still celebrating, and still refusing to act like the game
has an expiration date. Zidan is back with France, Klop
is back with Germany. English football is trying to outsmart
the dark Arts, and King Kazu is still scoring at
fifty nine. Not a bad day for football for the
messy effect, I'm Jamie Rudd.