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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 7/16/2007

David Pham of Houston, TX USA asks...

What about putting a hand up to protect your face from a hard struck ball? Sometimes I just can't duck fast enough. Sometimes I try to duck but bad vision and bad estimation of the flight of the ball put my face in danger. [16010]
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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 7/16/2007

Josh Resnik of Minneapolis, MN USA asks...

If a ball is thrown in, hits off the goalie's hands (and touches no other players) and goes into the goal, is the thrower awarded a goal? ...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 7/16/2007

Chris of Albuquerque, NM USA asks...

Follow up to the U-20 Portugal [16035] incident with the player snatching the Ref's red card out of his hand. Yep, off he goes. I don't want to do my usual 10-page harangue here, but I have to ask anybody else on the panel: when you watched the cli...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 7/16/2007

Joe of Broomfield, CO United States asks...

Here's a situation I saw while watching a game at a tournament this weekend. I'm a bit confused about the restart, but maybe I'm overlooking something. Clearly this is one of those "you had to have been there" situations, but give it your best shot...

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Law 11 - Offside 7/16/2007

Abdulelah of Khobar, Saudi Arabia asks...

We all saw Copa america final between brazil and argentina,
In messi's goal,
Messi was not offside the moment his team mate shoot towards the goal, but it then deflected from Alex and another argentinian player. Question is: What if the ba...

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Other 7/16/2007

Al of Sarnia, ON CANADA asks...

Aren't laughable stories the glory of officiating?

"Handball", "He can't play it on the ground", "Foul throw", and defenders saying "He needs to ask for 10 yards" are my four most frequent and favourites. I visibly grin, roll my eyes, and...

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Fitness 7/15/2007

Aaron of Chicago, Illinois USA asks...

I've looked at some of the fitness tests for various organizations and some of them require that ARs perform at a higher level physically than Referees. When I Ref, it seems like the Referees get a lot more activity than the ARs, not the other way ar...

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Mechanics 7/15/2007

Doug of Toronto, Canada asks...

Hi. This occurred in a tournament, where there were four referees at the field during the course of the day to cover nine games (2 lines 1 middle per game on a rotational basis). Anyway, one team had the same middle for their first two games. That te...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 7/15/2007

Wayne Friedman of ST IVES, NSW Australia asks...

I am a goalkeeper. Today, during a scuffle, one of my players tried to get rid of the ball inside the penalty box. The ball was kicked nowhere near me and was going for an obvious corner. We had been suffering under a deluge of corners all day, so I ...

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Law 5 - The Referee 7/14/2007

Jose Medeiros of Lawrence, Ma. USA asks...

Recent game U-20 Worlds in Canada Portugal-Chile, referee shows a red card to a Portuguese player, here no problem. Then a Portuguese player takes the red card from referee's hand and then hands it back to referee again, referee shows him the red car...

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