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Welcome to AskTheRef.com -- a Soccer Law Question and Answer site. Providing answers to questions regarding soccer laws since October 11, 1999... Those who have ideas or articles please feel free to contact the editor Richard Dawson at mrref@asktheref.com with suggestions. To recover You Call it answers use the .. Articles.. link button 3rd top left . NEW YOU CALL IT for Sept is up. Congrats to Sahid out of Chicago for August answer
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Law 13 - Free Kicks 9/20/2017Petr of Prague, Czech Republic Czech Republic asks...Hello,
my questions are about quick free kick. Player passes to his teammate (he is f.e. 5 yards away). Defender is obviously less than 10 yards away from the spot of the kick.
Three specific questions:
1) Can this defender acti...
Read The Full Q & A Law 4 - The Players Equipment 9/19/2017RE: Rec Under 15 Paul Samarel of New York, NY USA asks...If a goalkeeper loses a shoe while kicking the ball to midfield, what should the referee do?
I know if a player loses a shoe they can put it back on when convenient. But this would be more difficult for a goalkeeper, especially with big g...
Read The Full Q & A Law 11 - Offside 9/19/2017RE: Adult Muhammad Rizwan of Abbottabad, KPK Pakistan asks...Sir, Hope you are well. Yesterday I was watching the local match here in my city and a goalkeeper kick the goal kick and it was directly taken by the striker / attacker from the head and forward it to his player who was in offside position. The Assis...
Read The Full Q & A Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 9/19/2017RE: Adult Muhammad Rizwan of Abbottabad, KPK Pakistan asks...Sir,
Can you just brief me what is ball hand and handball if possible video clip would help me alot. Thanks
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Read The Full Q & A Law 17 - The Corner Kick 9/18/2017RE: Competive Under 13 Jeff James of ALLEN, TX United States asks...On the Corner kick where the players are trying to implement some trickery, If player 1 touches the ball and it does NOT come out of the arc and he runs onto the pitch telling player 2 to go take the kick. Player 2 runs to the ball and proceeds to dr...
Read The Full Q & A Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 9/17/2017RE: AYSO Flex (Select) Under 11 John Sendrey of Costa Mesa, California USA asks...In the following video, the goalie is seen struggling to control a ball bouncing between the ground and his hands.
https://youtu.be/d8y0OKgRABA (you may need to zoom in on HD video and play in slow motion to see details more clearly).
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Read The Full Q & A Law 4 - The Players Equipment 9/17/2017RE: Adult Mashooq of suva, Fiji asks...can a keeper be wearing a jersey without a number.
what if the ref has given him a yellow card in the match. what can be done in this situation aftr the match...
Read The Full Q & A High School 9/17/2017RE: Varsity Soccer Coach High School Jeffrey Cowles of Hilliard, OH United States asks...In addition to coaching HS, I also ref as well so this was frustratingly puzzling to me.
During halftime of a game last night, the referee warned our captain about going down to easily in the box trying to draw a penalty (he had already awarded ...
Read The Full Q & A Law 13 - Free Kicks 9/17/2017RE: Travel Team - Competitive Under 13 Robert Theisen of Gilbertsville, PA United States asks...I had a semi professional goalie provide instruction to my center midfielder and goalkeeper on establishing a wall for direct free kicks. His instruction was basically for the center midfielder to step to the ball and start marching off a reasonable ...
Read The Full Q & A Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 9/17/2017RE: Under 18 jeffrey of los angeles, la usa asks...I tend to have difficulty knowing when to caution for persistent infringement and tracking those players
In a game this weekend, Team B was clearly better than Team A and therefore a lot of Team A's defense consisted of pushing, holding, com...
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