Question Number: 18936

Kicks From The Penalty mark 4/30/2008

RE: Other

Thomas Hughes of Dublin, Ireland asks...

In a penalty shoot out situation, a player shoots a penalty, the keeper pushes it onto the goal post, it rebounds off the goal post, hits the keeper on the back and goes in. Is that counted as a goal?

Answer provided by Referee Richard Dawson

Hi Thomas,
hopefully the referee did not blow the whistle too soon as this is a legal goal under ANY conditions. regulation, overtime, extended pk or shoot out as in kicks from the penalty mark. Once the energy imparted into the ball from the kicker is transferred we wait until that energy from the ball is spent! In this case the energy it retained after the save by the keeper, after it hit the post and after it rebounded back again off the keeper it had energy to completely cross the goal line under the crossbar and between the posts only if a referee was smart enough to not prematurely end the match or phase of play by blowing the whistle.
Cheers

Answer provided by Referee Keith Contarino

Yes. Shot is active until ball has stopped ALL movement, or goes out of play.

Answer provided by Referee Ben Mueller

Yes. Kick is not complete until all inititial energy is done.