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Law 11 - Offside 8/2/2026Tony P of The villages, Fl USA asks...I throw the ball down the line towards my goal.
My team mates draws the defense up.
Then pass a high ball down my line within a few seconds.
At that moment I step back into play and (usually) pass back to a team mate outside the box to...
Read The Full Q & A Law 11 - Offside 8/2/2026Trent Futrell of Knoxville, TN United States asks...Was reffing a middle school game and attacking team had two players in offside position. Another attacking player shoots on goal and keeper jumps and it hits him in chest and bounces off his chest to one of the attacking offside players who shoots o...
Read The Full Q & A Law 5 - The Referee 7/28/2026Gary Breig of Colorado Springs, Colorado USA asks...It probably doesn't happen that often, but are there instances where two cautions on one player can take place in the context of field play resulting in ejection? I'm thinking it could happen in the context of advantage play. The official could go ba...
Read The Full Q & A Law 13 - Free Kicks 7/23/2026JASON HERR of GROVEPORT, OH United States asks...Law 13 - Free Kicks
Situation: Direct free kick within shooting range of the goal. As the free kick taker attempts a shot, a defender who was outside 10 yrds, runs from behind the free kick taker and intercepts the shot within 10 yrds of t...
Read The Full Q & A Law 14 - The Penalty kick 7/13/2026Greg Newberg of Santa Barbara, CA USA asks...I have a question about the wording, meaning, and application of some wording in Law 14. In the section about PKs taken during regulation time, it states that: "The penalty kick is completed when the ball stops moving, goes out of play, or the refere...
Read The Full Q & A Mechanics 7/9/2026Reuben Bernick of Glencoe, IL United States asks...Concerning the disallowance of Egypt's goal in the game against Argentina, could the referee have decided that the "foul" was not a foul by World Cup standards, or if it was, that the foul should not be called, even though it was part of the progress...
Read The Full Q & A Law 11 - Offside 7/6/2026??? of Guangzhou, Guangdong China asks...In the semi-automatic offside rule, a player's hair is considered part of their body only if it affects the trajectory of the ball. So, in the match between Croatia and Portugal, Matanovic only touched the ball with his hair, but the trajectory of th...
Read The Full Q & A Law 11 - Offside 7/3/2026Steve Maricic of Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey US asks...I watched the Croatia-Portugal game last night. I know very little about soccer, and I have a very stupid question about the Offside rule:
Imagine a game where Team A is winning 1-0 with a few minutes left to play. They decide to move al...
Read The Full Q & A High School 7/2/2026Joe Gonillo of Essex, VT USA asks...When is a second whistle required to restart play according to NFHS soccer rules?...
Read The Full Q & A Law 11 - Offside 6/29/2026Peter Cottam of Accrington, Lancashire United Kingdom asks...Germany v Paraguay on TV now ,German player from his own half kicks ball forward into other half towards a player who is stood offside, Paraguay player then heads it over touch line and the referee gives a corner,why not an indirect free kick for off...
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