Offside rule

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The offside rule is one of the oldest soccer rules, but is still a much discussed rule. The reason for this is the fact that today there are different perspectives of the cameras which film a soccer game, so all people can see when the referee makes a mistake.

The offside is a offence of the team which has the ball and gets punished with a free kick. At the point of time of the pass there have to be at least two players between the goal line and the offensive player

But there are some exceptions:

  • In the own half part of the field a offside position isn’t possible.
  • when there is a goal-kick, a throw-in or a corner kick the offside position is reversed.
  • It isn’t a offside position when the ball comes from a opponent.
  • A player who is behind the adversarial goal line, but not in the goal, is not in a offside position.
  • Is the player behind the ball line (the line trough the ball cross the field), the player isn’t in a offside position, also not when the ball is played forward.
  • An attacker who is on the same line like a defender is not in a offside position, because the defender count for the last man.
  • A player who doesn’t intervene isn’t in a offside position