FIH Ruling on Face Masks
Posted by Jon Woodrow on 23 February 2011
This mask does not “closely fit the face” and is not “smooth”.
Further, the FIH Medical Committee is of the view that the mask poses a potential risk to an opponent in a collision. It does not therefore meet the further requirement in the Rules that“players must not wear anything which is dangerous to other players”.
All players, team managers, technical officials and umpires are advised of this ban as of today Friday 18th February 2011.
It should be noted that this ban applies across all hockey, senior, junior, outdoor and indoor.
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