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[quote=SoccerCzar][quote=FPYCparent]I'm going to hijack this thread instead of starting a new one.  Feel free to send me hate mail.  :)

During a match yesterday, a sideline ref made a call that looked like an over-and-back (or backcourt) violation signal from basketball.  I don't yet have video of the play, but an attacker made a pass across the mouth of the goal to a trailing teammate.  The receiving player shouldn't have been offside ... and the side ref didn't put his flag straight up in the air as one might expect for an offside call.  Instead, the ref made the hopping motion with his flag like over-and-back/backcourt.  I'm wondering what else that call could have been.  (There was no other obvious foul and no goal was ultimately scored or wiped off due to the call against the offensive team.)

I guess I could go through referee training to figure out what the call was.  {grin}

Thanks in advance![/quote]

There are no official flag movements for ARs (sideline ref or Assistant Referee) that you describe. My only guess in what you are describing (even though you said it didn't happen) is that the AR thought that, when the ball was played, the teammate was in front of the ball and the 2nd to last defender (so in an offside position) but when the teammate actually received the ball, he was back on side because the 2nd to last defender recovered between the ball and the GK.  But what is normally done here is the AR pops his flag straight up and then with his empty hand makes the "backcourt" signal. I've never seen an AR try to make this signal with the  flag but anything is possible. What was the restart? Was it an indirect kick (center referee holding his hand straight up until the ball is kicked) for the defending team from where the AR was standing? If so, it's probably what I described.[/quote]

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