The Corner - One Of The Best Chances For Scoring!This is the Corners Page of the How to Play Soccer-Soccer School on Spain-Football.Org. Scroll down the page for the rules, tips and techniques, videos, book recommendations and lots more interesting stuff!
One of my frustrations with the - otherwise wonderful - Spanish game is that coaches don't give corners as high a priority as they should. In this section: The Soccer Pitch | The Soccer Ball | The Number of Players | Soccer Kit | The Referee | The Linesman | The Time | Starting and Restarting the Game | When is the Ball In or Out Of Play? | Scoring a Goal | The Offside Rule | Breaking the Rules | Free Kicks | Penalties | Throw Ins | Goal Kicks | Corners Taking The KickThe corner is a position kick - this means that it's always taken from within the quarter-circle that surrounds one of the corner posts. The players of the opposing team must maintain a distance of at least 9.15 metres (10 yards) from the ball, which is considered to be in play as soon as it is kicked or it moves.More RulesIf the ball goes directly into the goal from a corner kick, the goal is counted valid. However, if - in the unlikely case - the player taking the kick scores an own goal, the goal doesn't count and the other team gets a corner.Watch Out!It's against the rules to remove the corner flag in order to be able to take the kick more easily - I actually saw a player do this in an amateur game and the 'referee' said nothing!Some HistoryUntil 1927, a player could touch the ball more than once in a corner. There were even cases of players dribbling the ball into the box and scoring!Questions and AnswersWhy is there no offside from a corner?This is all to do with the position of the ball. The attacking players can't be closer to the goal line than the ball when the ball is put into play.
For this reason, an offside is completely impossible.
Are You A Player, Parent, Coach or Referee?As I do more and more research on the Internet on football-related topics I come across an ever increasing number of fantastic resources. Here are a few of the best ones I´ve found so far but with time this could turn into a complete section on different aspects of the art of playing and coaching.Blast The Ball is quite simply the best video available for learning all about kicking a soccer ball – covers everything from techniques, aerodynamics, parts of the ball etc. The promotional video is certainly worth watching as it is a lesson in itself. Total Soccer Fitness is a free fitness course that comes in five email instalments and is ideal for players, parents and coaches alike. Soccer Tutor is a set of 250 Soccer Drills endorsed by Adidas, Umbro and Leyton Orient amongst others. If you coach a youth team and want to work on their soccer skills, this selection will keep you in ideas for season after season as your players advance from beginner to professional. It´s particularly useful if you plan on taking your your FA or UEFA coaching licence and even if you're only interested watch the demo video – it's excellent. The guy that does the voiceover is so obviously a football professional. Game of two halves, innit? The Fastbreak Soccer Practice Book Although not quite as intuitive as Soccer Tutor also contains Soccer Drills, this ebook is worth having a look at if only for the free Training Schedules available in PDF format. Elite Soccer Coach is a very handy guide for football coaches and comes with two more ebooks on Fitness and Formations.
Do You Need A Soccer Website?If you belong to a football club or soccer is your hobby, you might be thinking of setting up a website. Well, I started Spain-Football.Org in November 2008 and it is now a very profitable site. The service I use is called SBI! from a company called SiteSell. The provide very easy to use tools to create the site and a lot of information about how to make money from advertising.It's a lot of work but it only took me three months to start to make a profit - if you've got a club with lots of people prepared to write content, you could be in the money more quickly. But if soccer or anything else is your hobby, SBI is just about the best way to start an online business. There are lots of other Soccer Sites on SiteSell but my two favourites are Football-England run by a couple of English guys and Soccer Tournaments run by American Michael Jones - I've actually become friends with these guys and learnt a lot from them. Check out their websites and watch the video below and then decide if SBI! is for you!
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