Goalkeeper kicks ball into striker’s backside.

A player moving in front of the goalie about clear the ball makes a foul. So technically speaking, the attacker won’t get anything out of this.

Give them a yellow. Dont fucking do that

Referee here. This used to be a yellow card for “unsporting behavior,” but they changed the law years ago. Now it would have to be done at least twice to show a yellow for “Persistent Offenses.” I learned this the hard way when I showed a player a yellow for doing this, and was later corrected by a more senior ref.

It can still be considered a yellow card for SPA / cynical foul, especially if attackers are pressed and there is a potential counter brewing. (Im a regional referee). I wouldn’t say it’s mandatory but when it’s very blatant and cynical like this I’d go yellow.

After he went down, I’d also require that he go off the field due to his very serious injury that definitely needs medical attention.

honestly, if every time someone flopped all the way to the ground and laid there trying to draw a foul they were sent to the bench for the rest of the game “to recover” the game might be a lot more fun to watch. Though in this particular video it does look like he just literally got his ass kicked (very much as a result of his own action, don’t get me wrong) so I’d belive he’s in some pain.

I still like the bit by a comedian that says each game needs an MMA fighter as a sideline ref. If a player goes down faking an injury that is clearly fake on the replay, the MMA ref comes in and injures the body part the player was claiming was injured for real. 🙂

I am not a soccer fan but i would pay to watch soccer if this was in fact a thing.

Soccer just scored!

I used to pay to watch soccer/football but I stopped going because of the flops.

This is exactly the reason why i dont watch soccer. This acting baby type shit is a hard pass for me. My father is a rabid soccer fan and he hates it too.

May I recommend the women’s leagues? There is a lot less faking over there. Or maybe they’re just better actors….

Not all the so called “flops” are flops. Getting kicked or cleated is like stubbing your toe. Can hurt like hell for 5 minutes, then it be fine. You wouldn’t discredit someone’s pain after stubbing their toe because they walked away a few minutes later. But flopping still happens and I agree that it needs to be regulated. It is also on the ref, sometimes you only get the call because you fell.

Yeah, there’s also the fact that if you’re at a full sprint, it doesn’t take a lot of contact to knock you off balance and onto your ass. I think the flopping reputation mostly comes from the guys who act like they’ve been shot every time they get touched. It’s less about the fact that they go down and more about how they react immediately after.

I only played in high school, and only JV, so it’s not like I’m trying to say I’m any kind of great player. But dammit when I got tripped, shoved, or otherwise found myself on the ground, I got back up as quickly as I could and continued playing. I just can’t respect the players who have to make a big show of looking shocked — SHOCKED! — every time someone touches them, and spend longer on the ground waiting for the ref to call something than it would have taken to just go get back into the play.

Looks like foot makes contact on the inner thigh and not the gooch/taint. Unless the guy has the longest penis of all time the injury is not serious. But I’m certainly not blaming the man for doing the whole football, injury, dramatic acting class thing.

If his penis is that long, he is in the wrong sport. He should be a ski jumper.

Or a pole vaulter.

The Olympics showed us the opposite. (French pole vaulted knocked the bar down with his penis)

True. I meant to say, “But definitely NOT a pole vaulter.”

That’s a good point. I never really thought of SPA from your own keeper, but under the right conditions that makes sense. The one time I “incorrectly” carded a player for this, he was just being a pest to the keeper and wouldn’t give space after my warning. Wasn’t an SPA situation.

PRO used to have an article that they’ve since archived but it discussed that there are really 3 types of SPA: 1. Speed/space/options – the one we’re likely all most familiar with. 2. DOGSO with a missing consideration – the challenge was almost dogso but maybe not given due to one of the considerations not quite being met. In these cases the yellow card is usually expected even if speed/space/options weren’t there. 3. Cynical offenses – even in cases where 1 and 2 aren’t met, overtly cynical fouls like the bad shirt tug to drag an attacker down or challenges with no chance to play the ball have an expectation for a card. The thinking being, the player would not have committed such an obvious or egregious foul if there wasn’t a tactical reason to do so. Blocking the GK as absurdly as this player does would fall under 3. It’s just much better supported if wingers / midfielders are also making attacking runs.

It also could be considered time wasting in the right context.

What a dumb rule change.

This should still be a yellow for unsporting behavior. Attacker knew exactly what he was doing

Ha! I actually got a yellow for being near the keeper when I was in 8th grade. The pass was too far and he fielded it easily, so I stopped outside the box and put my hands on my knees because it was a long run and like 95 degrees that day. Keeper ran at me then moved, I didn’t, and ref blew the whistle pulling yellow. I was so confused and still think it was the dumbest thing I was ever whistled for in any sport.

oh, so that’s why mbappe didn’t get a yellow with benfica.

How did they make you correct it? Did you have to do the whole announcement?

No correction or anything. After games, we (referees) typically talk with each about what went right and what we could learn from. I was much younger at the time so a more experienced referees who was an AR just shared the knowledge to help me grow.

Ah, I guess I’m curious what you meant by the hard way?