Law Changes

Here are some great short videos about each of the changes.

https://vimeo.com/user90259529

One the big ones that people are going to freak over is Law 12 on handling. Already had coaches yelling because they don't understand it. See this one at about the 2:40 minute mark.

Frank said:

Here are some great short videos about each of the changes.

https://vimeo.com/user90259529

One the big ones that people are going to freak over is Law 12 on handling. Already had coaches yelling because they don't understand it. See this one at about the 2:40 minute mark.

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Nice video, but I think only the last example (keeper picks up his own miskick) is something different with the new rule changes. Am I wrong here?

I was at a game this past weekend where the ref kept blowing the whistle when a goal kick did not leave the box before a defender received the ball. Is this change not implemented yet?

outside! said:

I was at a game this past weekend where the ref kept blowing the whistle when a goal kick did not leave the box before a defender received the ball. Is this change not implemented yet?

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Begins with League Play 9/7.

Should've been implemented for tournament season even refs seemed to agree but the powers that be...........

Frank said:

Here are some great short videos about each of the changes.

https://vimeo.com/user90259529

One the big ones that people are going to freak over is Law 12 on handling. Already had coaches yelling because they don't understand it. See this one at about the 2:40 minute mark.

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From what I've seen in actual application (pro games), a ball that plays off a player and then hits his/her arm that is above the shoulder is being called as a handball. The explanation I've heard is that the position of the arm above the shoulder supercedes the fact the ball was played off the players own body. I'm paraphrasing, but the law says it is not a foul if the ball touches a player's hand/arm directly from the players own head or body except for the above offences. Of which, having the ball touch your hand/arm which is above you shoulder is one of the above offences. So I believe this is what is being used to justify calling this a handball. I don't like that interpretation and much prefer how it is illustrated in the posted video.

As far as "unnaturally bigger" goes, I've just decided I'm mentally incapable of understanding that concept.

espola said:

Nice video, but I think only the last example (keeper picks up his own miskick) is something different with the new rule changes. Am I wrong here?

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playing a ball off your own hand would have been called handling before. Or at least I would have called in handling (maybe I would have been wrong)

I think my favorite part about the new handling laws is the excessive use of the word "Usually" (sarcasm). So refs will always be right haha.

At the end of the day, the law at its root hasn't changed. "Handling is when a player DELIBERATELY plays the ball with their hand or arm".
All they did was list out many, many specific scenarios that would constitute deliberate or not deliberate under the laws.

All the scenarios aside, it still uses the word "usually" because I can see a world where a player on the ground tries to be sneaky and handle the ball with their supporting arm by "shifting" their supporting arm. I would call that handling. He might say "But it was my supporting arm" But at the end of the day, all I have to say is: the law that trumps every other handling law "It was deliberate".

Also @Frank I personally would not call it handling before when the player deliberately played the ball with their head/foot/body/leg and then it would hit their hand/arm. So for me, the laws on handling did not change that much.