U11 game this weekend. No deliberate heading. Deliberate heading is treated as playing in a dangerous manner and an IFK is awarded. With that in mind... Attacking team shoots toward the goal. Defender on the goal line deliberately heads the ball away, saving a goal. There is general uproar from the sidelines. I was the AR. I watch as the center blows his whistle, walks over and gives the kid a yellow. I quickly and discretely beckon the center over and suggest that the restart needs to be an IFK from the top of the goal area. Meanwhile the kids are all lining up for a PK because they saw a card in the Penalty Area. My reasoning... it wasn't a DOGSO-Handling because he didn't handle the ball. It wasn't a DOGSO-Foul because he didn't foul anyone. All it could be was playing in a dangerous manner and a IFK to restart. The center went along with it and we set up for the IFK. Thoughts?
See here also: http://www.ossrc.com/newrefreg/2017/law12F.pdf p58 If a player deliberately heads the ball in a game with any portion of their head, an indirect free kick (IFK) is to be awarded to the opposing team from the spot of the offense. If the deliberate header occurs within the goal area, the IFK should be taken on the goal area line at nearest point to where the infringement occurred.
Not sure that is true. It's part of the PDIs, and the restart is the same as playing in a dangerous manner (IFK), but it's not an IFK foul.
Dogso can be for any free kick. Whether direct or indirect... now I may not be thinking dogso in a U-little game. But you are certainly within the law to send the player if you felt it was a denial of an obvious goal-scoring opportunity.
Our state has that listed for 7v7. 9v9 it doesn't have the misconduct issue (could be a typo). Our state is weird tho. Both US Club and USYSA have joined together to make standards that align with U12 DA. We also have more players playing US Club as opposed to USYSA. I also haven't done anything below U12 DA since the new "no heading" RoC change. Like what is even a build out line
The 'F' in DOGSO-F is for free kick, not foul. The no heading at U11 and under rule is a USSF thing. Similar to the powerpoint Billy linked to by Ohio South soccer, the training in my state also instructs us that players are not to be carded for heading violations (I can't imagine sending a u11 player off for dogso under pretty much any circumstances). I don't know if USSF has published a similar directive.
AYSO has also taken the view that heading can never be a basis for misconduct. It is a safety violation, not a violation of the LOTG.
As the awesome Doug Marshak (who sadly doesn't post on here anymore) said when the heading rule first came out in Minnesota. "Should a player be sent off for DOGSO for heading the ball....DEAR GOD NO!"
Absolutely not a YC. The location of the infraction is irrelevant. You wouldn't card the 2nd to last defender for deliberately heading out a ball that an attacking player was likely to score from. It's all about safety, not about PIADM. You can't really consider it anything like handling, because it's still a "normally" legal soccer action. They're just not allowed to do it. IFK on the goal area line nearest to where the infraction occurred.
Speaking of safety, a year or so ago I was watching a U12 game where a defender in the PA put his hands in front of his face to stop the ball hitting him (very fast moving ball, directly to the face). CR blew for a PK, so that kid learned a valuable lesson, it's better to get nailed in the face than to give up a handling PK. I wondered what would have happened if the ball hit his face, intentional heading? At least it would have been an IFK (his team mates would thank him when he came to)
If he didn't have enough time to move out of the way, that's an unfortunate decision. Here at least we are instructed to not call handling when a player instinctively protects themselves from a fast moving ball.
I would hope that would be everywhere. Sometimes the difference of opinion is whether the player had time to consider and do something different.
It's sad that any referee would call that a PK, when protecting oneself is a basic human reaction, and at U12 there is no training over that. Unlucky for the kid, hopefully R learned from it.
I was given the instruction that "If a player has time to react with their hands, they have time to react by moving their head out of the way." And LOT of guys call it that way around here. It's one of the very few things I don't do. Obviously, as with everything, every instance has its own set of "if this, then that"s, but handball is like a lot of things, you know it when you see it, especially in the PA. U12 is super harsh, U17, maybe less so?
I've heard that too, but it's a basic human instinct to protect your face, not duck and weave. I also dispute that one could duck faster than they can move their hands, especially at a young age. You can test this by throwing something soft at people's faces recording how many of then move out of the way vs cover their face I might try this around the office sometime