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Players at the upcoming World Cup better keep their arms tucked in, FIFA has warned.
The governing body of international football will crack down on flagrant elbowing at this World Cup, set to kick off Friday between Germany and Costa Rica.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has specifically instructed the referees at the 18th World Cup finals to watch out for thrown elbows, asking them to "please, please protect the players and protect the good of the game."
Blatter has come down on diving in the past, introducing the word "simulation" to the game. He called elbowing the "new devil" of football. "In a club match in European competition, one of the players, he lost two teeth," Blatter said as he sat next to Franz Beckenbauer, head of the German World Cup organizing committee, at a news conference to open the international broadcasting center on Tuesday afternoon.
"Here, special attention will be brought to the team managers that they shall tell the players not to use their elbows."