Question Number: 16210

Law 17 - Corner Kick 8/4/2007

RE: select Under 13

Ginger Parson of Des Moines, IA USA asks...

Before a corner kick is taken, a player on the attacking team is shown a red card and sent off for punching an opponent - what is the appropriate restart - corner kick, indirect or direct free kicks

Answer provided by Referee Michelle Maloney

Anything that happens on or off the field between the decision of the referee that the ball has exited the field last touched by a defender making the restart a corner kick (which means play has stopped with the referee's decision) and the actual taking of the corner kick (putting the ball back into play from the corner kick) will not change the restart. If there is violent conduct in that time between the decision and the actual restart, here the attacker punching an opponent, that player is sent off under a red card. If someone had shouted dissent at the referee, it would be a caution for dissent, but all of these different misconducts don't change the fact that the restart was already set before the misconduct occurred. The attacking team will take the corner kick with one less player on their side. Hope that is clear?

Answer provided by Referee Chuck Fleischer

Ginger the referee must restart play in accordance with what the Laws require. If the ball crosses the goal line having last been touched by a member of the defending side, and a goal is not scored, Law 17 demands a corner kick to restart play. What ever happens between the time play stopped and it being restarted, in accordance with the Law, means nothing -- as far as the restart goes. The notable exceptions of this are throw-ins and a penalty kick.

Regards,

Answer provided by Referee Steve Montanino

Restart play with a corner kick. The reasons are listed by the other panelists.

Answer provided by Referee Keith Contarino

Until last year it was possible to say that NO restart could be changed by anything done before the ball is put in play. Now it is safe to say that no restart may be changed for anything other than the specific infractions that deal with the taking of a penalty kick by anything that occurs before tha ball is put into play.