Another 'laws of the game' question for you

[RP]

From a goal-kick (i.e. off the ground, not out of his hands), can the Keeper score a goal, without any other player touching the ball?

[StevieC]

Yes.

 

It's a dead ball kick like a corner.

[stressederic]

Yes I think so. I imagine it would be treated much the same as a corner.

[RP]

In the game I was playing in, the goal ws given (by an unqualified ref). On the next pitch was a qualified ref and his opinion (after the game) was that it should not have been given.

[StevieC]

Did he say why?

[RP]

Trying to remember the phrase he used, something that implied it was equivalent to an indirect free-kick (but I cannot remember precisely what he said).

[Bo Benn]

You can score a goal from a goal kick but interestingly not an own goal

[Buzz]

In the game I was playing in, the goal ws given (by an unqualified ref). On the next pitch was a qualified ref and his opinion (after the game) was that it should not have been given.

You've got me intruiged now, can you describe the goal?. I used to dream of scoring a goal like this when I was a kid. Did the receiving keeper slip/mess up, or was it like the one Pat Jennings scored when it bounced over the keeper cause to do a Jennings would have been one hell of a ground kick.

Or was it five a side?

 

You can score a goal from a goal kick but interestingly not an own goal

I guess that would be classed as match fixing, or, cheating, would be pretty hard to accidently spin and kick into your own goal.

[smicer07]

Goal kick used to be indirect, it isn't any more though, so it's a goal.

[RP]

It was a 6-a-side tournament. Before the start we were told that all 11-a-side rules apply except for keepers couldn't kick out of hands, no offsides etc.

 

Oppo GK took a goalkick which flew straight into our net. Ref gave the goal. Qualified ref on the next pitch said that it wouldn't be allowed in 11-a-side - seeing as we were playing 11-a-side rules other than the stated exceptions, then that is the real question.

 

Doesn't really matter, just curious.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Goal kick used to be indirect, it isn't any more though, so it's a goal.

since when?

[John am Rhein]

Trying to remember the phrase he used, something that implied it was equivalent to an indirect free-kick (but I cannot remember precisely what he said).

 

That's correct if I remember rightly. Can't score from a goal kick or thrown in but can from a direct free kick or a corner.

[John am Rhein]

Goal kick used to be indirect, it isn't any more though, so it's a goal.

 

Did they change the rule then? I can imaging the earnest discussions that led to that decision: trying to encourage goalkeepers to shoot more from goal-kicks.

[RP]

Law 16 : "A goal may be scored directly from a goal kick, but only against the opposing team."

Edited October 7, 2007 by RP

[Murphman]

Law 16 : "A goal may be scored directly from a goal kick, but only against the opposing team."

 

 

Why didn't you just look it up in the first place instead of boring the t*** off us for two hours then?

[smicer07]

since when?

 

Think the law was changed 3 or 4 seasons ago now.

[smicer07]

Did they change the rule then? I can imaging the earnest discussions that led to that decision: trying to encourage goalkeepers to shoot more from goal-kicks.

 

Same thing with the kick off though, you never used to be allowed to score directly, but you are now.

[John am Rhein]

'Kinell! And we still don't see enough shooting from the kick off!

 

What on earth was the point of these changes? To makes sure everyone had to buy a new copy of the rule book?

[John am Rhein]

Law 16 : "A goal may be scored directly from a goal kick, but only against the opposing team."

 

Obviously framed purely to help Paul Robinson.

 

If a GK manages to put a goal kick into his own net then what's the decision? A corner or re take the goal kick?

[smicer07]

Obviously framed purely to help Paul Robinson.

 

If a GK manages to put a goal kick into his own net then what's the decision? A corner or re take the goal kick?

 

Corner.

[Guest Kaizer]

Obviously framed purely to help Paul Robinson.

 

If a GK manages to put a goal kick into his own net then what's the decision? A corner or re take the goal kick?

 

Take him outside and shoot him.

[Ripley]

If a GK manages to put a goal kick into his own net then what's the decision? A corner or re take the goal kick?

The goal kick has to leave the penalty area anyway, yes? Otherwise a retake.

 

It would need a mighty wind to blow back a kick that had left the area.

[John am Rhein]

The goal kick has to leave the penalty area anyway, yes?

 

Who knows what new innovations they may have introduced in this bid to encourage more attacking goal-kicks.

[John am Rhein]

It would need a mighty wind to blow back a kick that had left the area.

 

What about the rarely seen o.g.pen. statistic?

 

Player takes a penalty, hits the crossbar, and it rebounds all the way down the field and into his own net.

[Murphman]

What about the rarely seen o.g.pen. statistic?

 

Player takes a penalty, hits the crossbar, and it rebounds all the way down the field and into his own net.

 

 

Magic Mushrooms?