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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 9/11/2007

Vincent DeLuca of Manalapan, NJ US asks...

What consitutes legal physical contact? At what point does it become a pushing foul? Is leveraging with a raised arm considered pushing? ...

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Character, Attitude and Control 9/11/2007

Frank of Santa Cruz, ca USA asks...

Just to add to Maxine's question..... After the game the Ref gave back all my player cards then stated I need the boy who got the red card player pass back. I stated what's the boys name and gave him back the card, I also stated please make sure you ...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 9/11/2007

Paul Becker of Huntington, WV USA asks...

NFHS Rules state that any foul that results in a direct kick that takes place within the penalty area is awarded a penalty kick, my question is regarding a foul that is in the box that is not a scoring opporitunity.

Game situation: a strik...

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Mechanics 9/11/2007

Dave of Portland, OR USA asks...

I'm AR for a game where the cobalt team is dominating completely. The brown team are all back on defense on their own side of the field. Cobalt is almost always on offense. However, the cobalt sweeper is hanging back in a very conservative positio...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 9/11/2007

joe of hamilton, ontario canada asks...

If a player is red carded at half time for verbal abuse at the referee, ( she played the entire first half, and no substitutions were indicated for the start of second half) would her team have to play the second half with only 10 player? ...

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Law 9 - The Ball in and out of Play 9/11/2007

John Lambert of Ayden, NC USA asks...

On a corner kick, must the ball stay in bounds in the air or can it be bent like Beckham? We had a corner that was kicked toward the goal and wound up in front of the goal for a header but the ref said the ball went out of bounds first. The ball ne...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 9/10/2007

Jerry of wrentham, ma usa asks...

When the keeper retrieves the ball and then punts it - at what point is he "out of the box"? Is it from where the ball is on the punt or from where his feet are?...

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Law 11 - Offside 9/10/2007

Fuad of los altos, ca us asks...

Three part offside question (clarification): [16597 refers]

A1, A2 are attackers. Both A1, A2 are ahead of all the defenders except the defending GK. In all three scenarios, A2 was in offside position when the ball was kicked by A1, i.e he...

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Law 7 - Match Duration 9/10/2007

fred swanson of fairfax, VA USA asks...

The ref blew the whistle 3 min. before the 35 min half time mark while team A was in an attacking position. The AR and coach of team A called this to the ref's attention on the spot. He still called half time. At the end of the 2nd half, he added the...

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Kicks From The Penalty mark 9/10/2007

Mark Mayer of Cape Town, South Africa asks...

The context is a quarter final knockout competition and extra time has been played the game is still at deaadlock...Penalty time...

Can I elect a new goalkeeper for the penalty shootout from my 11 players that finished the game after the e...

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