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Anonymous wrote:NED V FRA. offsides or not? I say this was a terrible call. Line of vision and play not effected.

If you watch the view from behind the goal, I do feel like the goaliee was moving to the ball and then checked himself when he realized the player was there. Maybe he wasn't in the line of sight, but I did feel he impacted the play.

DS is a ref and it was an offsides for him, not even close.

One thing this was not is “not even close”. It’s a crazy subjective call. I see no obstruction of play or line of sight. But moments like these are subjective and at the discretion of the ref.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NED V FRA. offsides or not? I say this was a terrible call. Line of vision and play not effected.

If you watch the view from behind the goal, I do feel like the goaliee was moving to the ball and then checked himself when he realized the player was there. Maybe he wasn't in the line of sight, but I did feel he impacted the play.

DS is a ref and it was an offsides for him, not even close.

You cannot NOT call offside there. Attacker needed to get the hell out of the way. Dumb-ss But, based on the laws, it's tough. The criteria for offside is
1. Interfering with play by playing or touching the ball. Nope
2. Interfering with an opponent by
- CLEARLY obstructing the opponents line of vision. Nope
- Challenging an opponent for the ball. Nope
- Clearly attempting to play the ball that is close when this action impacts on an opponent. Nope
- Making an obvious action that clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball. - This is where the offside call came from. Personally, I believe it was the BEST call. Although from the back angle, I felt like the GK was dead. No way of getting to that ball and didn't even react until the ball was going past him. Nevertheless, if I was AR, I would have called offside. If I was VAR, I would have called offside.

As referee myself, I thought there was an interesting call in the Belgium match today. The Belgian right winger, I forget his name, was dribbling, cut in and was dribbling across the top of the box and stepped on the defenders foot and the ref called a foul against the dribbler/attacker. I've never seen that called before.

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Anonymous wrote:NED V FRA. offsides or not? I say this was a terrible call. Line of vision and play not effected.

If you watch the view from behind the goal, I do feel like the goaliee was moving to the ball and then checked himself when he realized the player was there. Maybe he wasn't in the line of sight, but I did feel he impacted the play.

DS is a ref and it was an offsides for him, not even close.

Anonymous wrote:NED V FRA. offsides or not? I say this was a terrible call. Line of vision and play not effected.

If you watch the view from behind the goal, I do feel like the goaliee was moving to the ball and then checked himself when he realized the player was there. Maybe he wasn't in the line of sight, but I did feel he impacted the play.

Romania v Belgium. What's up with the Belgian soccer jerseys? They seem to show so much more sweat than any jersey I've ever seen.

Portugal/Turekey game stopped 4 times for fans running on the field for selfies with Ronaldo. Sure, it's cute the first time a kid does it, but after that it's potentially dangerous and certainly distracting. There was one time for a corner kick the camera was at an angle so you could see it (the camera is good at not publicizing when stuff like this happens) and I immediately said, omg, is someone attacking Ronaldo?

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Anonymous wrote:So many coaches (and parents) here are against dribbling and creativity.
Several of these effective players at the Euros would never exist

When I’ve seen a coach tell a player not to dribble as much, it has nothing to do with being against dribbling or creativity but that they are trying to develop a well rounded player that is creative with all the skills they have, including dribbling. When dribbling is the default for a player, that player is not seeing all the options on the field and is a very predictable player for the opposition. The coach may think the player’s other skills are not up to par, like ball control when pressured, 1 v 1 quick, accurate passing, etc., and w

Player creativity can only truly exist when the player has ball mastery and field IQ.

That said, I don’t disagree that most coaches discourage dribbling because most players aren’t very good at it and clubs want to win.

The PP was clear about being against dribbling, not the decision making of when to dribble.

If you're in a position role that requires dribbling, 1v1 skills such as Winger, how do you get better from not being very good at it if you're constantly being discouraged to do so?
Without mistakes, there is no growth.

Anonymous wrote:So many coaches (and parents) here are against dribbling and creativity.
Several of these effective players at the Euros would never exist

When I’ve seen a coach tell a player not to dribble as much, it has nothing to do with being against dribbling or creativity but that they are trying to develop a well rounded player that is creative with all the skills they have, including dribbling. When dribbling is the default for a player, that player is not seeing all the options on the field and is a very predictable player for the opposition. The coach may think the player’s other skills are not up to par, like ball control when pressured, 1 v 1 quick, accurate passing, etc., and w

Player creativity can only truly exist when the player has ball mastery and field IQ.

That said, I don’t disagree that most coaches discourage dribbling because most players aren’t very good at it and clubs want to win.

So many coaches (and parents) here are against dribbling and creativity.
Several of these effective players at the Euros would never exist

NED V FRA. offsides or not? I say this was a terrible call. Line of vision and play not effected.

Anonymous wrote:If you ever needed additional proof that this is not a soccer forum 😂

Yes indeed. Meetup at the bar for the few actual football fans here??

Anonymous wrote:England lacks toughness. There's no fight in any of them.

A lot of watching and waiting for others to do something.

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Anonymous wrote:England lacks toughness. There's no fight in any of them.

It's not a medieval battle against vikings

You're right. It was a modern day battle against vikings yesterday and England should have lost.

Anonymous wrote:England lacks toughness. There's no fight in any of them.

It's not a medieval battle against vikings

England lacks toughness. There's no fight in any of them.