You mistake penalty and penalty shootout? Offsets leave you perplexed? You are given some essential keys to make your ball really round.

In a few hours the French team defies Croatia in the final of the World Cup. But you are quite fond of rough rugby matches or the sweetness of curling. Yet at 5 pm, you will be in front of your post. You do not know much about the rules of football? What does it matter, here are eight antiseches to tell you like the others in front of the small skylight.

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Penalty and shots on goal

We are talking about a penalty when a foul is committed against a player in the so-called "repair" area. Whistling, the referee indeed offers the team in the attack phase the opportunity to repair the injustice done to him. The player who takes the penalty then positions the ball on the point located 11 m from the goal line on which the goalkeeper must stay. If the latter pushes the shot, the shooter and his teammates can take the ball.The shots on the goal have nothing to do with a penalty. They are just the means to designate a winner between two teams that have not managed to separate during regular time and two extra time. The win is the best of five shots. By cons, unlike the penalty, the shooter has no right to continue his action. If the tie persists, the session continues and a shot on goal is enough to decide between the two teams.

Offside

A player is offside if, at the moment a teammate raises a pass to his attention, he is closer to the goal than the last defender. This rule has been put in place to prevent players from being stuck next to the opponent's goal while waiting for the ball to be passed to them. Warning, there is no offside position when the player is in his position. own half of land. In addition, the offside of a player is punished only if, in the opinion of the referee, he takes an active part in the game. The referee gives the opposing team an indirect free kick which must to be executed at the place where the player was offside.

Free kicks

The free kick is a compensation awarded to the team that has been fouled on the green square, except in the penalty area, in which case the referee whistles a penalty (read above); for example, a player has an eighth, if a player touches the ball with the hand or in case of offside. The ball is then placed closest to where the foul was committed and a player of the opposing team can clear it.

There are two types of free kicks depending on the seriousness of the offense: the direct or indirect free kick. In the case of a direct free kick, the player can directly try to shoot at goal. In case of indirect free kick, the player must make a pass; most often a tense shot at a teammate for a recovery of the foot or head. The team protecting its goal may place a wall of players 9,15 m from the place where the free kick will be taken. Since the 2014 World Cup, the referee has a foam bomb with which he marks the distance to be the wall; a distance previously constantly discussed ...

The corner

A team is awarded a corner or corner kick when the ball goes out after the goal after being touched by a defender or goalkeeper. In this case, a player on the attacking team shoots from the corner on the side where the ball came out.

Yellow and red cards

The main referee has a yellow card and a red card. The yellow card is out in case of fault or to punish the multiplication of small mistakes committed by the same player. The "rusk" can also come to sanction an unsportsmanlike behavior, the protest by the gesture or the word of a decision of the body of arbitration. If a player already sanctioned a yellow deserves according to the referee a second, the latter turns into red.The referee can also leave a red card directly in case of gross foul: foul preventing a goal in the area repair, fault involving the physical integrity of the opponent, spitting on a person, voluntary hand hindering a clear goal opportunity, insulting or rude.

If a player receives two yellow cards in two different matches, he is suspended for the next match. During the World Cup, single yellow cards are canceled after the quarter-finals; this is to prevent a player from missing the final for a second caution in the semifinals.

Crossing the line

A goal is scored when the ball has completely crossed the line. If some of the leather still touches the line, the goal can not be awarded. The central referee and his agent on the sidelines sometimes struggle to know what it is. That's why goal-line technology has been put in place. Thanks to a system of cameras making it possible to compute at a high speed the position of the balloon, or thanks to a sensor placed in the latter, the goal-line technology vibrates the watch of the referee when the ball completely crosses the goal line.

Discounts in play

When the ball goes out of bounds on the goal line, it is put back into play by a kick from the goalkeeper at the "six meters". The ball is considered playable when it has crossed the boundaries of this penalty area. When he comes out of the game by the sides, it's a touch. The throw-in is hand-made by a member of the team who was not responsible for the ball coming out.

The ball on the ground

The ball on the ground is a throw-in of the ball by the referee who intervenes after any temporary stopping of play caused by a cause not regulated by the laws of the game, while the ball is inside the court. For example, when the referee stopped the game to heal a player or when a spectator, an animal enters the field. The ball on the ground is at the place where the ball was at the time of the interruption decided by the referee.