Unless I'm reading them out of the wrong location I'm not sure what I'm missing.
Below are the areas that I think are pertinent. Redkard, what I'm talking about is making a cup with the arms to chest down a ball. Instead of chesting it they are arming the ball down. Also a long ball (which there are many in HS) and the attacker arms the ball out of the air. I'm talking about handing the ball out of the air. So then it boils down to is is deliberate. I think it is is the majority of the cases I'm seeing. Sometimes subtle, sometimes not subtle, sometimes extremely obvious (kid sticks his hand straight up in the air to knock now a flying ball). I'm seeing more of the taking arming the ball down as a trap. Are you using the logic that cupping the arms to chest a ball is a natural position and the fact that it hits the arm is indidental? Or that the player was running his arm flew up and hit the ball lucking making it fall to his feet. What I'm seeing are not those cases. Again so far no harm so no big deal. It just seems to be a pattern. I was wondering if for High School officiating was thinking that more inexperience therefore more breaks on playing the ball. Thanks for your repsonse. It did make me go read.
A foul is an unfair or unsafe action committed (1) by a player, (2) against an opponent or the opposing
team, (3) on the field of play, (4) while the ball is in play. Deliberate handling of the ball is committed
against the opposing team, not against a particular opponent. If any of these four requirements is not
met, the action is not a foul; however, the action can still be misconduct.
12.9 DELIBERATE HANDLING
The offense known as "handling the ball" involves deliberate contact with the ball by a player's hand or
arm (including fingertips, upper arm, or outer shoulder). "Deliberate contact" means that the player
could have avoided the touch but chose not to, that the player's arms were not in a normal playing
position at the time, or that the player deliberately continued an initially accidental contact for the
purpose of gaining an unfair advantage. Moving hands or arms instinctively to protect the body when
suddenly faced with a fast approaching ball does not constitute deliberate contact unless there is
subsequent action to direct the ball once contact is made. Likewise, placing hands or arms to protect
the body at a free kick or similar restart is not likely to produce an infringement unless there is
subsequent action to direct or control the ball. The fact that a player may benefit from the ball
contacting the hand does not transform the otherwise accidental event into an infringement. A player
infringes the Law regarding handling the ball even if direct contact is avoided by holding something in
the hand (clothing, shinguard, etc.).
NOTE: In most cases in the Laws of the Game, the words "touch," "play," and "make contact with"
mean the same thing. This is not true in the case of deliberate handling, where the touch, play, or
contact by the offending player must be planned and deliberate.
12.10 RULE OF THUMB FOR "HANDLING"
The rule of thumb for referees is that it is handling if the player plays the ball, but not handling if the
ball plays the player. The referee should punish only deliberate handling of the ball, meaning only
those actions when the player (and not the goalkeeper within the ‘keeper’s own penalty area) strikes or
propels the ball with the hand or arm (shoulder to tip of fingers).
12.11 USE OF THE SHOULDER
For purposes of determining deliberate handling of the ball, the "hand" is considered to be any part of
the arm-hand from fingertip to shoulder. Using the top of the shoulder is not considered as using the
hand. (A diagram showing the area of “the hand” is shown below.)
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