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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 11/20/2007

Rob Schmidlin of Lynnwood, WA USA asks...

In a recent game where I was the Center, the defending team had possession of the ball in their half and moving towards their own goal (they had just intercepted a through pass from the attacking team). In an attempt to move the ball to an area of l...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 11/20/2007

Tom Le of San Jose, CA USA asks...

I have three questions:
1) Can you award a direct free kick in penalty area? is it a infringement in penalty area constitutes DFK (not serious enough for PK)
2) If defender jumps up to the air and uses his hand to attempt to prevent an att...

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Law 11 - Offside 11/20/2007

Bill Bryant of Seattle, WA USA asks...

Thanks once again for the (quick) responses. I am ever more appreciative of the challenges involved in calling offsides given the millions of permutations that could occur even with the few variables involved.

In this case, I did factor i...

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League Specific 11/20/2007

James Handsfield of Atlanta, GA United States asks...

Not so much a question but an observation [of 17877]. A couple of the responses mentioned this situation being protestable because of an incorrect restart. In normal play that is correct, but this situation is in tournament play. Most rules of com...

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Law 11 - Offside 11/20/2007

Bill Bryant of Seattle, WA USA asks...

Thank you, Referee panel, for your collective responses. The consensus opinion appears to be that I did not make the correct call because the offside player, while making a play for the ball which was ultimately struck successfully by his onside tea...

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Law 11 - Offside 11/20/2007

paul cowlishaw of mexborough, uk asks...

If an attacking player is one on one with a goal keeper with no defenders in sight and he rolls the ball backwards to a fellow player across from him (but behind) and this player taps the ball into the empty net. Is this offside?...

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Law 3 - Number of Players 11/19/2007

craig of sherman oaks, ca usa asks...

if a team wants to change goalies with a player currently on the field and then sub another player who is not ill or hurt with a fresh player are there ant restrictions?...

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Law 3 - Number of Players 11/19/2007

Dan Curran of honolulu, HI USA asks...

I agree, if 12th player problem is discovered before restart, then indirect free kick for team that was "scored" on and caution for whoever the 12th player was... if discovered after restart, goal counts and then 12th player gets a caution. But here...

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Mechanics 11/19/2007

John Schneider of La Mirada, CA Los Angeles asks...

I was the referee in a game (AYSO GU12) this last weekend. It was an extremely competitive match that was tied 1-1 when, while the ball was in a play, a parent yelled out that their daughter had just been struck by an opposing player. The ball went o...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 11/19/2007

Peter of Stockton, CA USA asks...

Hi

Reading through this [17187], I want to ask a question: If a defender handles the ball in a DOGSO case, but advantage is played, and a goal results anyway, does the referee award a goal, and a red card the the defender, or is the red ca...

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