Fouls, Misconduct Clarifications Among Changes In Soccer Rules For 2023-24. ... Soccer is the third most popular sport for girls with 374,773 participants in 12,071 schools.

Direct and indirect free kicks and penalty kicks can only be awarded for offences committed when the ball is in play. For the purposes of determining handball offences, the upper boundary of the arm ...

An independent investigation has found systemic abuse and misconduct within women’s professional soccer in the United States. The report, led by former acting attorney general Sally Q. Yates and ...

With all the hullaballoo surrounding the behaviour of players and the judgment of referees, I felt it was time to revive this series with a look at Law 12 (Fouls and Misconduct) of the 17 rules ...

Debate surrounds the idea of using sin bins at the highest levels of soccer, and that includes the Premier League. ... (Fouls and Misconduct) that would make handball penalty offenses punishable in ...

Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty. Despite finding that "verbal and emotional abuse and sexual misconduct were widespread problems in women's soccer" prior to the NWSL's founding in 2012, U.S. Soccer ...

The meeting considered potential clarifications for the Laws of the Game 2024/25, including a possible amendment to Law 12 (Fouls and Misconduct), according to which handball offences leading to ...

The United States Soccer Federation released the findings of its independent investigation into allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct within women's professional soccer in the U.S.

In this World Cup year, when soccer passions are running high, supporters are likely to object to every foul decision against their team. But they might also have a point. A colleague from the ...

Soccer referees forced to make quick decisions on questionable foul calls are more likely to rule against the taller player, according to a new study. Niels van Quaquebeke and Steffen Giessner ...

Dames, who resigned from the Chicago Red Stars in 2021, was accused by the women’s soccer star Christen Press of “verbal and emotional abuse,” the N.W.S.L. report said.