Anyone watching the Netherlands v Italy match in Euro 2008 saw a Netherland’s goal allowed that seemed to be offside – except there was an Italian defender out of bounds behind the end line. So many wondered if that player factored into any offside decision. The answer is Yes. The question was did he leave [...]
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Tell Your Parents (and Coaches) About The PIG
It wouldn’t be the weekend without another uproar over a (supposedly) missed offside call. So the head of the organization that oversees officiating for the English Premiere League, Keith Hackett, penned an article in support of offside and why the recent refinements requiring active play have made a positive impact on the beautiful game. His [...]
About That No Offside Thing…
Long time readers know that we’ve covered the elimination of offside for U10 Soccer in North Carolina in depth:
No U10 Offside Vaporizes Within Hours
Bye Bye U10 Offside
U10: Teach The Kids Right – Keep Offside
Should Offside Be Called For U10 Small Side?
U10: To Call Offside Or Not
So now that the Fall [...]
How Would You Explain Offside To A Soccer Mom?
Offside confuses soccer parents – there is no denying it. I chuckle because I see some soccer parents who played AND have coached, yelling at referees for offside when it clearly wasn’t. So how would you explain offside to soccer parents? Josh at Throughball found a soccer parent asking that very question though he’s not [...]
No U10 Offside Vaporizes Within Hours
As you all know, NC finally eliminated offside for U10 play at the Challenge (travel) level. One of the unanswered questions after this decision was made was what the tournaments would do as they weren’t affected by the decision. One of the bigger regional preseason tournaments in Winston-Salem, that used to be Classic only, added [...]
Bye Bye U10 Offside
North Carolina finally gave in to peer pressure and joined the rest of the country in prohibiting the enforcement of offside in U10 travel soccer (Challenge). I know this is old news for those of you in NC, but I felt it was still worth sharing for everyone else. Longtime readers know that I’ve talked [...]
U10: Teach The Kids Right – Keep Offside
The second proposal coming up at the next NCYSA Challenge Council meeting is to eliminate offside for U10 match play. This will be the second time this issue is considered, after it was rejected 27-24 last year. This is an issue I have written about before and feel very strongly about. I strongly encourage reading [...]
No Need To Rush An Offside Call
For years, US Soccer has issued position papers related to the Laws of the Game and things referees should be doing or looking for and highlighting ‘tough call’ scenarios. With the advent of online video, they have started to include YouTube videos as part of the papers which show the situations being discussed. Very cool.
A [...]
Offside and Advantage
Jeremy over at SoccerWorld has a post up about the ‘new’ offside interpretation in use for the past year or so and how it allowed a goal to count when a player, uninvolved with play, was very offside:
There was much discussion this weekend of Newcastle’s controversial first goal against West Ham. For those of you [...]
QOTW: Are You Seeing The ‘New’ Offside Rule Called?
Just over a year ago, FIFA added clarifications to the offside rule trying to clarify when a player was gaining advantage, interfering with an opponent, and interfering with play:
The definitions of elements of involvement in active play are as follows:
Interfering with play means playing or touching the ball passed or touched by a team-mate.
Interfering with [...]
Soccer Rule Primer for Parents – Fall 2006
Each season we send out an email to our parents highlighting common misconceptions about the game of soccer that come up again and again in our league. Looking back, the vast majority of parent complaints and controversy end up coming from a misunderstanding of the laws of the game. It is fairly long, but surprisingly, [...]
QOTW: Should Offside Be Called for U10 Small Side?
I’m going to start up a new regular feature here at On The Pitch – a Question of the Week (QOTW). Based on whatever might be gripping the soccer world or my own feeble brain at any given moment, I’ll try to use the QOTW to stimulate some debate and commentary among soccer fans. I’ll [...]
U10: To Call Offside Or Not…
USYS recommends not calling offsides in U10 due to the short field (60 yds) and the inability of the players to understand it. Yet many leagues still call it. What is the right ‘call’?
Offside – Keepers Interference
I’ve found that this is probably the most contested offsides call in our league and also the most difficult call to make – keeper interference.
