| BLUE CARD SHOWED IN INDOOR SOCCER How many time are you listening
players asking for a blue card?
This is a common word
in indoor soccer: "blue card!", "show a
blue!", "that's for blue", etc.
However, we must to remember that not all fouls are
considered for show a blue card.
The simple rule is that blue card may be showed when a
player is committing any of these offeenses:
(a) Kicks or attempts to kick an opponent;
(b) Trips an opponent, i.e. throwing or attempting to
throw him by use of legs or by stooping in front or
behind him;
(c) Jumps at an opponent;
(d) Charges an opponent from behind unless the latter is
shielding the ball in a legal manner;
(e) Charges an opponent in a violent or dangerous manner.
If a player deliberately turns his back to an opponent
when he is about to be tackled, he may be charged but not
in a dangerous manner;
(f) Strikes, elbows, attempts to strike or elbow, or
spits at an opponent.
A two (2) minute Power
Play time penalty must be assessed for any of these
offenses.
Spitting calls for immediate ejection.
(g) Holds an opponent;
(h) Pushes an opponent;
(i) Handles the ball, i.e. carries, strikes, or propels
the ball with his arm or hand (this does not apply to a
goalkeeper in his team's penalty area);
(j) Boarding, i.e. propelling an opponent into the
perimeter wall. A two (2) minute Power Play time penalty
must be assessed for boarding.
(k) Playing in a dangerous manner;
(l) Charging fairly at an improper time, i.e. playing
with the shoulder, when the ball is not within playing
distance of the players concerned;
(m) When not playing the ball, intentionally obstructing
an opponent, i.e. running between the opponent and the
ball, or interposing the body so as to form an obstacle
to an opponent.
(n) Charging the goalkeeper except when he is outside the
penalty area.
The 2 minutes power play time penalty is applied even if
the ball was in or out of play at the time of infraction.
Also, as the official rules from US Soccer Federation
establish: "A time penalty must be assessed for
incidents of boarding, elbowing, spitting, striking, and
for other offenses deemed severe, blatantly tactical, or
blatant in nature. If the offense occurred within the
offender's penalty area, while the ball was in play, a
penalty kick shall be awarded."
Finally: remember that 3 any cards showed to a player in
the same game (even blue or yellow) conduct to a red card.
Hugo Caceres (01/11/2008)
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