[ayso45-refs] How to count injury substitutions

[Brent Lang]

In U7, if a player is injured and leaves the game part way through the
period, how is that recorded on the game card?  Do you submit the
injured player as injured for the period in which they leave, or only
for follow on periods?  Does it matter whether the injury takes place at
the beginning, middle or end of the period?  Same question for the
player coming in to take there place.  Are they recorded as having
played the entire period in which they came in?  


Brent Lang
 

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Today's Topics:

   1. A few mid-season reminders (Beau James)


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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:52:58 -0700
From: Beau James <b_james at pacbell.net>
Subject: [ayso45-refs] A few mid-season reminders
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Refs (and interested coaches),

Below are a few procedural reminders/refreshers, collected from
observations at many games so far this fall.
Today's topics:

    (1) Free kicks: respecting the distance, quick kicks, and setting up
walls
    (2) Offside: when does offside postion become an offside infraction?
    (3) "Quarter" substitutions: the clock is running!

If  you have other topics that you'd like to see shared with the region
45 refs, please send them to me for the next "edition".

Hope you are enjoying the season so far.  Have a great day on Saturday!

Beau


_*(1) Free kicks: respecting the distance, quick kicks, and setting up
walls*_

On any free kick awarded to the *red *team, all *blue *players are
responsible for moving the required distance from the spot where the
ball is placed for the free kick. The required distance varies by
division: 6 yards for U7/U8, 8 yards for U10, 10 yards for U12 and
older. The distance applies in all directions around the ball, not just
the "forward" direction that the kick will probably go.

Especially in the younger divisions, the referee may need to encourage
the *blue *players to move away from the ball ("move back 8 yards,
*blue*"). But unless asked by the *red *team to do so, the referee
should not become involved in positioning the *blue *players.

The *red *team is /always /entitled to place the ball and take a quick
kick. The *blue *team is entitled to try to set up a defensive position,
such as a wall - but the *blue *team is /not /entitled to be given time
to set up their defense, and the *blue *team is /not /entitled to
assistance from the referee getting into their defensive position.

Things change when the *red *team asks the referee to /enforce /the
distance ("hey, 10 yards, ref!"). At that point the free kick becomes
ceremonial. The referee should first tell the *red *kicker that she must
now wait for the referee's signal before kicking. Then the referee
should go to the appropriate distance from where the kick will be taken
to indicate to the *blue *players how far they must move.  (That's
usually quite a bit further than the players think it is!)  Once the
*blue *players have backed away the required distance, then the referee
should signal to the *red *player to proceed with the kick.

_*(2) Offside: when does offside position become an offside
infraction?*_

Remember that in soccer, being in an offside /position /is not an
infraction. To become an infraction, the player in the offside position
must become /involved in active play/.

Today's point is to emphasize the meaning of /involved in active play/. 
 From Law 11:

    The definitions of elements of involvement in active play are as
    follows:
    . Interfering with play means playing or touching the ball passed or
    touched by a team-mate.
    . Interfering with an opponent means preventing an opponent from
    playing or being able to play the ball by clearly obstructing the
    opponent's line of vision or movements or making a gesture or
    movement which, in the opinion of the referee, deceives or distracts
    an opponent.
    . Gaining an advantage by being in that position means playing a
    ball that rebounds to him off a post or the crossbar having been
    in an offside position or playing a ball that rebounds to him off an
    opponent having been in an offside position.

When you are an assistant referee, tracking the offside position and
indicating offside infractions to the referee is your primary
responsibility.

An attacker in an offside position who could have played the ball, but
does not, is not "involved in active play" simply by running toward the
goal or calling to his teammate for a pass. An attacker hanging out in
an offside position near the goal is not distracting the keeper and thus
"interfering with an opponent" simply by being there. An attacker in an
offside position, breaking toward the goal and drawing defenders to run
towards him, has not generally "deceived" his opponent.

Be sure that /active involvement/ actually occurs, before you raise your
flag to indicate an offside infraction.

Brad Porter forwarded this pointer:

    http://www.dynamic-thought.com/OffsideLo.swf

which is a good animated referesher on the basics of the offside law.

Law 11 is deceptively simple. It is the subject of endless
scenario-playing and debate in any referee meeting or class.  If would
like to engage in some lively discussion, join us at one of the
Wednesday pizza sessions.

_* (3) "Quarter" substitutions: the clock is running!*_


The region 45 policy regarding the substitution breaks "approximately
midway through the first half" and "approximately midway through the
second half" is that /the clock continues to run/.

Substitution breaks are meant to be brief!

Coaches should not expect to use the substitution break as a "coaching
huddle", even in the younger divisions. This takes playing time away
from the players.

Players who are going off should show their jersey number to the
assistant referee (or referee, in U7/U8) before sitting down. Players
who are remaining in the game should stay on the field. Players may come
to the edge of the field, parents may bring water bottles to the
players.

After a short break (+- 90 seconds), the referee should start calling
for the players to get back on the field. Sometimes, a short "tweet" of
the whistle and calling out ("Let's go! Clock is running!") helps. 
Calling out the restart ("It's a *blue *throw-in from here!") may help
to un-confuse the players and get them moving into position more
quickly.

In region 45, the fields must be scheduled very tightly in order to
complete all the games each weekend. We do not have the luxury of large
inter-game gaps. That means that we do not have the luxury to stop the
clock during the substitution breaks (as AYSO National suggests) nor to
add time at the end of each half to compensate for long, slow
substitution breaks.

Start the match on time, start the second half on time, keep the clock
running during each half - and keep the substitution breaks short,
sweet, and on point.
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