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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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Law 8 - Start and Restart of Play 9/10/2007

tammie of gadsden, al etowah asks...

One of my players today at practice kicked the ball in the goal on kick-off and scored. The ball did not touch another person. Now when I played soccer about 15 yrs ago the rule was you could not score on a kick-off, Then i think it changed to it had...

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Law 5 - The Referee 9/10/2007

Curious of Rockford, IL USA asks...

If the league rules "allows" for slide tackling, is it still up to the Referee to determine if it is legal or not for that particular match that he is working (taking the player safety into consideration). I was refereeing U15 games where there were...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 9/10/2007

Dave of Portland, OR USA asks...

I am wondering when to apply the red card for DOGSO by deliberately handling the ball for youth players. With the really little ones, say U10, they often forget that they can't use their hands or they don't even know that purposely controlling the b...

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Law 11 - Offside 9/10/2007

Kris Allshouse of Cypress, California USA asks...

If a defender slightly deflects a throw-in intended for an (otherwise offside) attacker, does it change it from a throw-in (no offside) to causing the attacker to be offside?...

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