What Do You Know About Football Laws?

Ques: What action should the Referee take if a player of the defending team, other than the goalkeeper, standing outside the penalty-area, intentionally handles the ball within the penalty-area?

Ans: He should penalize the player by awarding a penalty-kick because the offence took place within the penalty area.

Ques: What action should the Referee take if two players of the same team commit ungentlemanly or violent conduct towards each other on the field of play?

Ans: The referee should caution them or dismiss them from the field of play and re-start the game by a

Ques: If a player who enters or returns to the n indirect free kick. field of play without receiving a signal from the Referee to do so, and who, apart from this, commits another more serious infringement like handling the ball or striking an opponent, how should he be penalized?

Ans: The Referee shall caution the player for entering or returning to the field of play without having received a signal from the Referee.

*The referee shall furthermore punish the more serious infringement.

Ques: If a Referee cautions a player who in turn apologizes for his misconduct, can the Referee omit to report the incident?

Ans: No, all cautions must be reported.

LAW XIII

Ques: If a player takes a free-kick and then intentionally handles the ball before it has been played by another player, should the Referee punish the more serious offence and if so, how ?

Ans: Yes, by a direct free-kick or by a penalty-kick if the offence took place in the penalty-area.

Ques: May a free-kick be passed backwards ?

Ans: Yes . The provision of Law XIII must, however, be observed in respect of free-kick taken by the defending side from within its own penalty-area.

Ques: A player is awarded a free-kick in his own half of the field of play and he passes it back to his own goalkeeper who mieses it completely and the ball enters the net . Is it goal or corner-kick?

Ans?

The Referee should award a corner-kick provided that, in the case of the free-kick in the penalty-area, the ball has already gone into play, other wise the free-kick inside the penalty-area must be taken .

Ques: If the ball from an indirect free-kick touches another player and enters the net, should a goal be awarded ?

Ans: Yes.