6 games this past weekend. I spoke to lots of coaches and fellow referees about the change to the kickoff law. NOBODY (referees included) knew about the change that the ball no longer has to move forward. Isn't this change in effect as of June 1st this year?
Yes, but... It might vary locally. In my state the SRC had completed training materials before the changes were published so they posted that the 2016-2017 laws were not to be enforced this year, but that post has now been removed from the SRC website so who knows if they are going to come out with something different now. And coaches not know the laws? Say it ain't so. In youth leagues in the US, for many of them the law changes are going to be the least of their concern, with birth year registration and amended rules for small sided games coming this year and next.
As far as I'm concerned, nothing goes into effect until I hear something specific from my SRC...and that hasn't happened yet. Has yours advised anything?
Our spring season in pretty much over with State Cup, Rec Cup, and Academy Cup all at the end of this month. I would expect the changes to take affect in the fall. I'm basically of the opinion, just don't bring in up. If the kick-off happens to be a little backward, I'll just let them play. If someone brings it up, I'll discuss it then. Our adult small sided league already has the rule that the kick-off can go in any direction, and that's all that will be going until September other than some off-season tournaments.
And of course, NFHS is not adopting this new kickoff procedure for 2016-17 so there will be one more annoying difference that we have to explain between high school and club soccer.
Dual system, you'll be positioned so far away from the circle, you won't know if it went forward or backward.
The NFHS National Soccer Rules Committee meets at the end of January, and rule change proposals have to be submitted in December, so they have no way to know what the IFAB will do in March. I find a number of other things in life to be irritated about rather than a rule difference between high school and IFAB. NCAA only changes rules every two years and they will not be adopting the IFAB changes either until 2017, if they ever do so.
We are struggling with the timing of these changes. The IFAB, as we know, only published the changes recently. USSF has not had time to prepare any training materials. We have been told that they hope to have them out by June 1. Of course, once we have the materials available, we have to get the information out to all of our referees, instructors and assessors. That's not going to happen overnight. Meanwhile, we have summer youth tournaments virtually every weekend. I hope that we will be ready to turn on the new rules by the start of the fall season. It is possible that we may not be able to do so even by then, which would put start up off until the new year.
We had a guy give out a soft red in a district match. If the team that didn't play down had won. I am kinda curious if the game would have been protested.
Last week, I had the home coach after u-15 AYSO game ask me why I didn't make the player "sit down" after I cautioned the player. I simply said, "We don't do that in AYSO." After I got back home, I thought up a better response. It is something like, "Players don't have to sit, and we don't make you wear all white jersey and socks in AYSO either." I'll have to remember that for some other time.
If the coach wants to sub a cautioned player, I will usually let them do so and justify it as a mental injury substitution.
I would too. But it was his opponent and he thought that it was like NFHS where all cautioned players have to leave the field.
AYSO says this is not acceptable. (For those who don't do AYSO, subs in the main program are limited to halftime, halfway through each half, and for an injured player.)
I don't do ayso. There's actually no ayso leagues in Arkansas or Oklahoma to my knowledge. Wouldn't a metal injury still count as an injury?
Well, you were responding to an AYSO post . . . . Outside leagues with limited sub opportunities, a caution would be a sub opportunity. I understand the logic of "mental injury," but whatever its merits, AYSO rejects that fiction.
High school soccer used to have a rule that some red cards only disqualified the player, the team did not have to play down a player. Those were referred to as soft reds.
In the US our scholastic soccer system does not follow IFAB Laws of the Game. In our amended scholastic soccer system (there is two sets of rules; 1 set for secondary school, 1 for university) there use to be a rule that allowed for a red card and soft red. With a soft red (basically double yellow) the player was still dismissed but the offending team would not have to play shorthanded. They were allowed to make a substitute for the dismissed player. Referee's here in the states can have up to 3 sets of rules to know and be aware of: FIFA LoTG, NFHS rules or Secondary School (we call it high school), and NCAA rules or university (we call it college)
The "soft red" no longer exists in US high school soccer. When it did exist, I believe it was only used for a second caution. The proper procedure was when a player received a second caution, the referee held up both the yellow and red cards simultaneously in the same hand. This indicated that a specific player was dismissed, but the team could replace him on the fields with a substitute.
To further complicate matters, different states can choose to modify the NFHS (high school) rules so what may be called in one state is different from another. For example, in New York, a player who receives a yellow card must leave the field until the next guaranteed substitution opportunity, which could happen almost immediately. However, in Maine, a player receiving a yellow card must leave the field of play for a minimum of ten minutes. Luckily, most high school referees only officiate in one state.