Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Can you answer this question on the offside offence in soccer?

Suppose the attacking team (Team A) is taking a throw in on their opponent's half of the field. The ball is thrown in and deflects off the head of a player from Team A before deflecting off the body of a player from Team B. The ball is then played by an attacker from Team A (Number 10), who was in an offside position at the moment the ball deflected off his teammate's head. Did Number 10 commit an offside offence?



State reasons for your answer.



(Anyone who gets this right would either be an association football referee or an extraordinary football fan).Can you answer this question on the offside offence in soccer?
A player's offside "status" gets re-evaluated when one of three things happen.

1. When a team-mate touches the ball.
2. When an opponent controls the ball (no deflections).
3. When the ball is out of play.

One cannot be guilty of an offside offense directly from a throw-in. The attacker is offside at the moment of the header by this team-mate. The defender deflection does not change his status.

This attacker is guilty of an offside offense.

EDIT: Yes, I am aware that his team-mate headed the ball. This is the critical moment in time where he is deemed offside (see #1 above). The defender deflection does not put him on side again.(see #2 above).Can you answer this question on the offside offence in soccer?
Yeah it would be because Team A touched it last, but I'm not sure havn't played in 2 years

(or maybe Im reading it wrong lol)

Did the ball deflect of a players head then deflect of a body or the other way around?

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