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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are players permitted to purposefully run full speed at the goalie and collide with them?  Baseball had a rule change that no longer allows collisions at the plate with the catcher and it makes the game safer. What’s the rule for soccer? [/quote]

Quote from Law 12, first Section:

"1. Direct free kick
A direct free kick is awarded if a player commits any of the following
offences against an opponent in a manner considered by the referee to be
careless, reckless or using excessive force:
•?charges
•?jumps at
•?kicks or attempts to kick
•?pushes
•?strikes or attempts to strike (including head-butt)
•?tackles or challenges
•?trips or attempts to trip"

To one of your responders: It used to be illegal to fair charge the keeper, but sometime between today and 2004 (Last time I wore a badge), they apparently changed it.[/quote]

It falls under...

[u]Serious Foul Play[/u]
A tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent or uses excessive force or brutality must be sanctioned as serious foul play.
Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play.

If the referee feels the tackle (running into the keeper) or the kick was careless, a foul would be called. It also might be seen as a push, or as you mention 'in the air' as jumping at the keeper. It could also simply be a collision, the case of two bodies attempting to occupy the same space at the same time, and no foul would be called.

If the foul was deemed reckless a caution should be added, and if done with excessive force the player should be sent off.[/quote]

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