I think these toys we have at our disposal are important and I also think the preparation leading up to the World Cup has been really thoroughly done by Fifa," Eriksson says. The 2011 Copa América tournament was the first tournament for national teams to use the spray. [8] Its success caused it to be adopted by several national leagues in 2011 in America, including Major League Soccer. [8] It has also been used in the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey, the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship in Malta and Gozo, and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. This project today at Fifa was only possible because of the merger of two Latin American countries, Brazil and Argentina, that for the first time ever played on the same team,” jokes a company statement about the intense on-field rivalry of its two founders’ nations. Allemagne insists that moving forward his aim remains to push his vanishing spray into as many corners of the game as possible.

I told the ref to please fix the wall. He didn’t do it and the wall was very close to the ball. I ended up fighting with the ref and he sent me off.” The Football League chief executive, Shaun Harvey, said: “Having seen it used in the recent World Cup, the introduction of vanishing spray into the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy will give us the opportunity to observe its use in domestic football so that we can better understand its effect on the flow of the game.” In his younger years, Allemagne, now 43, said that he used to play as a center forward, scoring “a lot of goals”. Having played for his city in both futsal and football at amateur level, he said that these experiences were enough to make him want to do “something special” for the game. That “something” is a spray that has changed the way the professional level football is refereed and, someday, may feed into the levels at which he used to play, too. Vanishing spray used for first time at tournament". BBC Sport. 12 June 2014 . Retrieved 13 June 2014.BrazilPublished 0002743-A,Dias Heine Allemagne Vilarinho,"BR-0002743-A: Foaming aqueous composition, use thereof and process for temporary demarcation of regulation distances in sports.",published 2002-10-29

Having witnessed that, and following consultation with our clubs and the PGMOL [Professional Game Match Officials Limited], we have decided to introduce it in the Premier League and look forward to having it in place for the 2014-15 season.”

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The spray will not be used yet by the Football League, which intends to hold trials of its effectiveness in next season's Johnstone's Paint Trophy. Smith, Ben (12 June 2014). "World Cup: Brazil 3 Croatia 1". BBC Sport. Sao Paulo . Retrieved 13 June 2014.