Question Number: 16670

Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 9/13/2007

RE: school High School

kayla martin of circleville, ohio usa asks...

can a girl on you're own team intentionally drop the ball back to the keeper and the keeper pick the ball up with her hands or will it be called a handball? should she pick it up or should she kick it and not touch it with her hands?

Answer provided by Referee Chuck Fleischer

How did you drop the ball to your keeper? By heading it back, chesting it back, using your thigh, knee??? In all those cases she can use her hands.

Did you deliberately kick it to her? If that's the case she can't use her hands without penalty of an indirect free kick.

Regards,

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Answer provided by Referee Michelle Maloney

In any case, your keeper could never be called for deliberately handling the ball inside her own penalty area. She is allowed to use her hands because she is the GK, but there are certain situations where the Law thinks that is unfair or time wasting but isn't as serious as to cause a penalty kick to happen. So it is an indirect free kick is given.

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Answer provided by Referee Ben Mueller

If the keepers teammate kicked the ball to keeper deliberatly, then the keeper cannot touch ball with hands. If he does, IFK at the spot of the 2nd touching.

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