Referees are using a spray similar to shaving foam to stop defenders from edging ... calling for a free kick for Brazil during a Group A football match between Brazil and Croatia.Getty Images ...

Referees mark these spots with a foam called 9.15 Fair Play, a vanishing spray that disappears only ... [Core77; Business Insider Australia] argentina football soccer Get the best tech, science ...

Then again, football's supremo wasn't in favor of vanishing spray a couple of years ago, only to change his mind in December. In Brazil, referees will use a water-based, shaving cream-like foam in ...

For fans of South American football, the foam spray is nothing new ... open image in gallery Some referees went a bit overboard with their new spray (Twitter) If this photo is anything to go ...

The foam spray helps football referees mark free-kicks to encourage fair play during games. Photo: Referee spraying vanishing spray Shutterstock" The Football Association of Norway has announced on ...

But for some, the real star of Brazil 2014 comes in a small spray can, a “magic foam” which allows referees to make ... as far back as 2000 in a junior football tournament in the Brazilian ...

The vanishing spray used by referees at the recent FIFA World Cup has found a new home in the English Premier League. The biodegradable foam, which provides a visual 10-yard marker at free kicks ...

Grondona was hardly the most enlightened of administrators but he saw the foam spray as ... managed by the referee. “Plus, it met another key criterion for FIFA: to play football you only ...

Last week, a court in Rio de Janeiro acknowledged Heine Allemagne's patent for the spray used by referees at football matches ... them 15 years to develop a foam that disappeared a minute after ...

The French Football League (LFP) had already announced its plans to adopt the spray, which was used at the World Cup in Brazil. Now the FFF has followed suit, and referees throughout the top three ...