How to kick a penalty...scientifically

[Karl]

Zas crise!

What is the problem, Karl?!?!

The fact is the goalkeeper must be on the line (and between the goal-posts) at the moment the ball is kicked!

Matters not what he does prior to...press ups and or flips...or knee lifts prior to...!!! prior matters not...at the kick he must as per "Law" be on the goal-line between those uprights!

If he did not comply and there is a miss or save..."Law" says re-take! (the attaking team gets another shot at the penalty-kick) ...and btw - a new kicker can be used by the attacking team!

[Bricktop]

Prior to the kick, Brickie! Prior to the kick!


...at the kick he must be standing on his goal-line between the goal-posts!

So wha yuh seh Karl him can run along di line prior to the kick but as soon as the ball is kicked him mus stop?

[Mosiah]

No, it's not Karl's birthday yet?

[Bricktop]

Yow mi inside mi office a dead to rhattid. Is it April 1st already?

[Mosiah]

Yes, they have!!! He may run along the line to his heart's content!!!

[Mosiah]

Zas crise!

What is the problem, Karl?!?!

[Karl]

Karl, please update your rule book. The 2009 version is on sale!

They have changed the mandate that the goalkeeper stands on his goal-line between the goal-posts at the taking of the kick?

I don't think so!

NB: Point me to the link for the 2009 FIFA version of the "Laws" and the 2009 "Intrepretations"?
Thank you!

PS: I every now and again - re-read the newest versions of these guides. The one I cam quoting from is the 2008/2009 versions...they have not changed the "practical methods" we used in 1990. What they have done is put it in writing in a clearer more easily understood format for the fanz and novice refs.

They (FIFA, The Internationa FA Board and the various national FAs) have improved methods of teaching.

It is not so much my being a retired FIFA ref although that helps...it is that I taught, trained and assessed refs for many years both inside and outside of Jamaica.

[Mosiah]

Karl, look it up!!!!

[Karl]

Rule 14 - Penalty Kicks
A direct free kick is taken at the penalty mark in front of the goal. It is a one-on-one situation with the kick against the goalkeeper. Everyone else must stay outside the penalty area and at least 10 yards from the ball (the reason for the arc at the top of the penalty area) until it is kicked. The goalkeeper must remain on the goal line facing the kicker until the ball is touched, although the goalkeeper may move sideways along the goal line prior to the kick.

Prior to the kick, Brickie! Prior to the kick!


...at the kick he must be standing on his goal-line between the goal-posts!

[Mosiah]

Karl, please update your rule book. The 2009 version is on sale!

[Karl]

the law says he can move along the line....

Does it?

or...does it say, the goalkeeper must be on his goal-line? Sure it does not say where between the goal-posts he must stand or commands he stands in the middle of the goal on the goal-line...but does it say he can move along the line?

...or he must be on his goal-line within the gaol when the kick is taken?

The defending goalkeeper:
• must remain on his goal line, facing the kicker, between the

goalposts until the ball has been kicked

As a practical matter the goalkeeper can run along the goal-line...but at the moment of contact with the ball by the kicker...he must be on the goal-line. he should not be infront of the line or behind the line...he should not be in the air...

He should be on the goal-line between the goal-posts (the uprights). Clearly if he is in the air he is not on the goal line.

Can he stand on one foot? ...as long as that foot is on the goal-line at the moment the ball was kicked!
Sure!

Can he be falling down or leaning to one side or the other?
Sure! ...as long as at the moment the ball was kicked he was on his goal-line!


but...

...he must be on the goal-line between the uprights at the moment the ball is kicked.

The funny thing is the ball is not in play until it travels the distance of its circumference....and at Penalty-Kicks the ball must travel forward. ...and that can give rise to a whole other set of actions and reactions depending on how the players action subsequent to contact occur...and who next touches or comes into contact with the ball.

When we refs are...were (...let's give respect to my Shady Pines years) being trained as we moved along (became more experienced) we envisioned as best as we possible could, all the possible (improbable?) things that could happen during the managing of matches and worked out the answers as per "Law"...and "International FA Board" decisions.


Of interest:

Infringements and Sanctions

If the referee gives the signal for a penalty kick to be taken and,

before the ball is in play, one of the following occurs:

the goalkeeper infringes the Laws of the Game:
• the referee allows the kick to be taken
• if the ball enters the goal, a goal is awarded

• if the ball does not enter the goal, the kick is retaken

The point is many of the kicks saved as per "Law" should have been retaken. It has now become the norm to allow the goalkeeper a bly on movement in conravention of the "Laws?

Since it has become the "rule" to allow those contraventions is it right for the refs so to do?

You decide!

...another for you - Can the goal-keeper do handstands on the goal line?

[Bricktop]

every time the goalkeeper (matters not which person - specialist goalkeeper or no) waited on contact to move (That is what the "Law" demands) the ball would end up in the back of the net.

Rule 14 - Penalty Kicks
A direct free kick is taken at the penalty mark in front of the goal. It is a one-on-one situation with the kick against the goalkeeper. Everyone else must stay outside the penalty area and at least 10 yards from the ball (the reason for the arc at the top of the penalty area) until it is kicked. The goalkeeper must remain on the goal line facing the kicker until the ball is touched, although the goalkeeper may move sideways along the goal line prior to the kick.

[Karl]

Karl. The twelfth man masquerading as a referee

Well Brickie - To show my students (primary school, high school, teacher's college and KSAFA Major League) how difficult it was to save a penalty, ...and why the kicker had nothing to fear...I used to stand over the ball with my left leg planted beside the ball...I would have the goal-keeper take up position on goal-line and then kick with right foot to the corner of the goal we both had decided on...every time the goalkeeper (matters not which person - specialist goalkeeper or no) waited on contact to move (that is what the "Law" demands) the ball would end up in the back of the net. Incidentally those kicks were always aimed along the ground.

...now consider shooting accurately up into that little "V" (right-angle) in the upper corners of the goal? I would thinkl only "superman" could effect save.

[Bricktop]

Karl. The twelfth man masquerading as a referee

[Gamma]

the law says he can move along the line....