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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 5/8/2017

Daniel Sugar of Sharon, Massachusetts United States asks...

A player is in his own penalty area and slides to the ground. While sliding, and after he's on the ground, his arm is extended away from his body. His arm blocks a ball that is coming toward him and his own goal. He started moving his arm out as h...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 5/7/2017

Jack of Sydney, New South Wales Australia asks...

In question 31496, Referee Grove appeared to imply that the wording of the definition of playing in a dangerous manner had changed in a way that no longer required opponents to be be prevented from playing the ball for fear of injury.

Howeve...

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Law 5 - The Referee 5/7/2017

John Nagel of Wilmette, IL USA asks...

Do the laws permit a CR to formally caution a coach for dissent? Or is the only formal remedy for persistent coach dissent a dismissal? Law 5.3 makes clear that the CR can dismiss a coach (CR may 'take[] action against team officials who fail to ac...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 5/7/2017

Andy Weinstein of Jackson, Nj Usa asks...

The ball travels out of bounds for a throw in for white team. After the ball is completely out, White team player is called for a push and a direct kick is awarded to blue team. It was my understanding the ref should have awarded the throw in to whi...

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Law 16 - The Goal Kick 5/6/2017

Edward of Dallas, TX Usa asks...

Had this happen to me in a youth (U12) game. I was the AR on this particular play.

Keeper goes to take goal kick. However, the wind was fairly strong that day (gusts over 30 mph) and when she kicked it the ball blew backwards over her team's...

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High School 5/6/2017

Billy Will of Virginia Beach, VA United States asks...

The AR moved the corner flag during a free kick to make is easier for the player to kick the ball. Is this legal. I know during a corner kick the flag can not be moved. I don't know about a free kick and an AR bending the flag out of the way so the p...

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High School 5/5/2017

Nate Eis of Peoria, IL USA asks...

To clarify... in the opinion of the referee, if a team (A) only says 'i got it' whenever the ball is played to Team B and with Team B's back to team A's player; then I would say that is unsporting and after multiple infraction the next player deserv...

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Other 5/3/2017

Aaron Speca of Virginia Beach, VA United States asks...

Sorry it took me some time to get back here to read your answers to the question :)

With regards to the size differential ... unfortunately this was a situation where the tournament only accepted 24 teams at the U13 age group and our team (t...

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Law 16 - The Goal Kick 5/3/2017

Mehran Ali of Faisalabad, Punjab Pakistan asks...

The goalkeeper is starting with goal kick if he started with the player inside the box, is it a foul? ...

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Law 11 - Offside 5/2/2017

Steve Kessell of Auckland, New Zealand asks...

Hi.
If a player in an offside position sprints after a through-ball but does not interfere with any defender (who are of course also sprinting back), but then the attacker jumps the ball, is this an offence?
He may block defenders sight of th...

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