electrichead72
SILVER ELITE
So, this happened in my son's CIF playoff game last night.
The attacking team took a goal kick. An attacking player was in an offside position before the ball was kicked. The defending players didn't cover this player as they thought he would be judged offside.
The ball was kicked, the attacking player received the ball and scored a goal.
Our coach argued that the player should be judged offside and the goal disallowed. He argued so much so that he received a yellow card for his troubles. Refs said that there is no offside rule when a goal kick is taken. A new "CIF" rule.
Full discloser, my son's team did end up winning after this, so not too pissed about it, but at the time it was the go-ahead goal for the other team and could have cost us the game.
Were these refs correct?
There was another iffy call that the other team scored on, but I guess it didn't matter in the end.
The attacking team took a goal kick. An attacking player was in an offside position before the ball was kicked. The defending players didn't cover this player as they thought he would be judged offside.
The ball was kicked, the attacking player received the ball and scored a goal.
Our coach argued that the player should be judged offside and the goal disallowed. He argued so much so that he received a yellow card for his troubles. Refs said that there is no offside rule when a goal kick is taken. A new "CIF" rule.
Full discloser, my son's team did end up winning after this, so not too pissed about it, but at the time it was the go-ahead goal for the other team and could have cost us the game.
Were these refs correct?
There was another iffy call that the other team scored on, but I guess it didn't matter in the end.