Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Handball
A handball foul should not be called if: a player is instinctively trying to protect himself from injury, the player did not deliberately touch the ball but the ball hit his arm and he did not move the arm toward the ball (however, if the player's arms were in an unnatural position such as above his shoulders or sticking out to the sides, the he should be called for a hand ball).
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Thabo, Fifa's directives for judging deliberate handball is as follows:
ReplyDelete-- distance of the kicker and the player;
the reaction time the player has, if any, to move his arm away (unexpected ball);
-- original hand/arm position of the player;
-- whether the ball moved towards the hand/arm (ball kicked onto the arm) versus a hand/arm moving towards the ball.
For further explanations, see also (almost at the end) this post: http://refarbiter.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/that-is-not-a-foul-ref/