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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:02 AM
Subject: Referee News From AYSO
The intent of this weekly newsletter is to provide interesting and useful referee related information for AYSO referees. Send questions, article ideas or comments to: Joe Eldridge, AYSO National Referee Administrator at WhistleStop@....
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To Whistle Or Not To Whistle?
Things You Didn't Know About Things You Know Well
Referees must make quick decisions, and the luxury of time to think it over, look it up or discuss it with someone is not an option during the game. Test your knowledge and see if you can answer the following questions:
What should the referee do and how is play restarted, if... 1. While the ball is in play, a red team player leaves the field of play with the referee's permission to repair a broken shoelace, and while off the file violently strikes a blue team substitute? 2. While the ball is in play, a red team player runs off the field of play to attack a blue team's substitute and violently strikes the substitute? 3. A throw in is awarded for the blue team in front of the red team's bench and the referee grants permission for a red team substitute to enter the field to replace a teammate who has already left the field. Before entering the field, the red team substitute strikes the blue team player standing off the field waiting to take the throw in? 4. During play, the referee realizes that earlier in the game he mistakenly allowed a red team substitute who was not a member of the team's official substitutes to enter the field for a red team player, and this illegal substitute had scored a goal earlier in the game for the red team? For answers, click here. |
| Tales From The Pitch Believe It Or Not!
Gene Kulyk, Chicago, IL
Well is wasn't a goal kick like the situation you posed in last week's Whistle Stop, but it might as well have been. I referee in a northern suburb of Chicago. Several years ago I was officiating a U-16 game on a very windy day. The keeper had just made a save and was putting the ball back into play. He kicked the ball from the top of his goal area (effectively a goal kick) into a stiff headwind. The ball sailed high, out of the penalty area, caught the wind and came back toward him but went over his head directly into the goal! Since this was a high school aged boy in goal, his language was quite colorful as he saw the ball coming back toward him with no chance to stop it. I did admonish him (lightly) for the language but also commiserated on his supreme bad luck. No harm no foul, I awarded the goal but his team went on to win the game anyway.
Interestingly enough, had it been a goal kick and he had saved the own goal, it would have been an Indirect Free Kick for the other team since he would have touched the ball a second time before another player did. | |
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