Cooling off
The cooling period ( english cooling break ), colloquially water break , a short break in football , which will allow players in hot weather, cool off and have a drink. The background is to protect players from heat damage .
The world football association FIFA introduced these game interruptions in 2014 as part of the World Cup in Brazil , after a Brazilian labor court obliged them to do so in the event of outside temperatures above approx. 32 ° C. The perceived temperature calculated according to the WBGT index ( Wet Bulb Globe Temperature ) , which takes into account air temperature, humidity, solar radiation and wind speed, is decisive . In the future, if the conditions are stressful, there will be two three-minute cooling breaks in all FIFA-monitored games, every half after 30 minutes, as soon as the current move has been completed. At the end of half time, the three minutes should then be replayed.
While drinking breaks were permitted earlier as part of other interruptions in the game, the first official cooling-off breaks took place on June 29, 2014 in the round of 16 game Netherlands - Mexico from the 32nd and 76th minute of the game. The game took place at lunchtime in the city of Fortaleza, near the equator , at approx. 34 ° C and a humidity of approx. 68%.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Healthy as a player - playing in great heat. fifa.com, 2014, accessed July 7, 2014 .
- ↑ http://wind.met.fu-berlin.de/wind/specials/leichtathletik/wbgt_de.pdf
- ↑ http://www.gefaehrdungsbeendung.de/de/gefaehrdungsrechte/arbeitsumgebungsbedingungen/klima/hitze/vorlagen/anlage4.pdf
- ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Drink as ordered by the court. June 29, 2014, accessed July 7, 2014 .
- ↑ Cooling off breaks during the World Cup in Brazil. fifa.com, June 13, 2014, accessed July 7, 2014 .
- ↑ Cool story and a continent fright. fifa.com, June 30, 2014, accessed July 7, 2014 .
- ↑ Live blog. fifa.com, June 29, 2014, accessed July 7, 2014 .
