There are other procedural fouls, like time wasting
and illegal substitutions, which can also be awarded
with a yellow card.
Rule 13: Free Kicks
For all infringements listed in the law previous, a
Direct Free Kick is awarded, meaning that the ball
can directly be scored from the Free Kick. There are
also Indirect Free Kicks, meaning that the ball must
touch another player before it can be scored.
Indirect Free Kicks are awarded after an Offside
offense and for Playing in a Dangerous Manner,
which includes preventing nearby players from
playing the ball. An example of this is a “high kick,”
which is not an inherently illegal action, but becomes
illegal when it either causes a player to react to the
kick (an Indirect Free Kick) or if it makes contact
with an opponent (a Direct Free Kick).
Rule 14: The Penalty Kick
Penalties are taken from the penalty mark, which
is 12 yards from the center of the goal. During play,
they’re awarded for Direct Free Kick fouls within
the Penalty Area. We’ve already covered this pretty
comprehensively, but another detail is that during a
penalty kick, the goalkeeper must stay on the goal
line, and for penalties taken during regulation and
extra time, players can enter the box as soon as the
kick taker touches the ball.
Rule 16: The Goal Kick
For restarting play after an attacking team played
the ball over a defending team’s endline, the
goalkeeper plays it outside of the penalty area (18
yard box) from any point within their goal area (6
yard box)
Rule 17: The Corner Kick
Rule 15: The Throw-In
For restarting play after the ball goes out over a
sideline, the team opposite of the one that played it
out is awarded a throw-in. For the player throwing
the ball in, they must
A. Keep both feet on the ground outside
the touchline
B. Throw the ball in with both hands, starting
behind the head
Players cannot be offside if they receive the ball
directly from a Throw-In, Goal Kick, or a Corner Kick.
After the defending team plays the ball over their
own endline, the attacking team is awarded a corner
kick, taken from the corner closest to the point
where the ball exited play. Although a goal can be
scored from a corner(called an “Olympico”), it’s
exceedingly rare and quite difficult.
That is the streamlined version of the rules of soccer,
as detailed by the International Football Association
Board. Rules and their interpretations are quite
nuanced and are tweaked from year to year, and
although the rules themselves do not change that
much, they will come under more scrutiny as the tide
of VAR (Video Assistant Referee) sweeps through the
world’s game in the very imminent future.
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SIX AREA LOCATIONS
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Jeffersonville
New Albany
Salem
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