Question Number: 29269

Kicks From The Penalty mark 3/26/2015

RE: div 3 High School

Andrew of mtl, canada asks...

What is the rule?
On penalty shoots outs at the end of the game , if a player runs up and stops, then shoots. What happens?
Also if he was cautioned once by the referee and does it 2 more times, is the player not removed?

Answer provided by Referee Dennis Wickham

During penalty kicks, including those taken during the kicks from the marks phase, a player must kick the ball once the player reaches it. A feint to kick the ball once the run up to the ball has been completed is considered unsporting behavior. The player should be cautioned and shown the yellow card. If the player does it again, the player should receive a second caution in the match, and be sent off and shown the red card. The player is not replaced.

It would be very unusual for a player to repeat something for which the player has just been cautioned.

Answer provided by Referee Richard Dawson

Hi Andrew,
strange tactic? As my colleague Ref Wickham indicates the rational for a repeat of an action he is cautioned for is bizarre? If a referee cautions once for this it stands to reason we would caution him a second time and then show him red card sending him off for receiving two cautions in a match. To NOT hold a player accountable for being so obtuse as to disregard the earlier warning the referee is not accepting his own conditions. I would think the player was trying to get sent off on purpose. Likely mention the actions as such in my match report
Cheers

Answer provided by Referee Joe McHugh

Hi Andrew
In 2010 IFAB amended the Interpretation of the Laws of the Game and Guidelines for Referees on Law 14 to note that feinting to kick the ball once the player has completed his run-up on a penalty kick is considered an infringement and an act of unsporting behaviour for which the player must be cautioned.
Prior to that it was not spelt out in the Law and it was tacit knowledge that a player could not stop on a penalty run up. I understand that it became such an issue in South America that IFAB was asked to insert the advice in 2010 so that any possible doubt regarding its legality would be removed.
Now we have all looked at some penalty kicks and there can be a doubt about whether the player as part of feinting stopped or not. In those instances we perhaps look to the goalkeepers reactions for assistance. If the player stops at the moment of the kick and the goalkeeper dives with the ball kicked in the opposite direction a second later that is certainly an infringement for which the player is cautioned. If a goal is scored the kick is retaken. If however the player stutters / feints his run up and the goalkeeper waits until the last moment diving to save the ball in the manner expected then obviously it was genuine feinting.
Have a look at some of these penalty kicks. In the first one shown the GK believes that the player has stopped on the run up and looks for an infringement. It is not an infringement just feinting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G01KHew43qU&t=0m58s
Now have a look at this penalty. This is what is called a paradinha which is now illegal as part of Law 14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=788q49gBGjk&t=0m40s
Here is one that did not work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fh6M4rLNc0&t=0m41s
The correct decision now is a caution and as a goal was not scored the game restarts with an IDFK to the defending team from the penalty mark.
Now you do not mention why the player got the opportunity to repeat what he was cautioned for two more times? If a player repeats what he has just been cautioned for ONCE that is sufficient for the player to receive a second caution and that results in a dismissal.
I might suggest that there could be another reason for retakes here which is that the goalkeeper could have moved / encroached before the kick and if the kick was not scored it is a retake. That is not an infringement by the kicker.

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