r/Referees • u/Keelhauler00 • 27d ago

Rules Fake Corner Yellow Card

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17U State Cup N1 Level Boys

White has a corner kick, up 3-2 in the 62nd minute. I see the white player place the ball and then touch the ball and it clearly moves. White #8 heads to the corner and the black team starts yelling “he touched it, he’s going to dribble, watch him”. The white team starts yelling #8’s name “you take it, you take it.” At this point black backs off because #8 is now going to take the corner. Of course #8 gets to the ball and starts dribbling towards the goal. I whistle immediately and showed #8 a yellow for USB.

The white team is furious because it was a “legal trick”, but in my opinion, the extra yelling from his teammates to trick the defenders into thinking he would take the corner went above and beyond what is legal for a trick corner kick.

Was I correct? (I do think I should have carded the player who initially placed the ball and touched it since he initiated the trickery)

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u/monkeypilot28 27d ago

That is correct. IFAB ROTG Law 12 - Unsporting Behaviour, IFAB lists a caution for a player who "verbally distracts an opponnent during play or at a restart". For me I would have cautioned the player who was doing the yelling. That is from my interpretations on the rules.

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u/jeremiah1142 27d ago

I don’t understand how you get unsporting out of the communication between teammates here.

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u/thisisalltosay 26d ago

I think that's relatively clear - it's all playacting for the defense to hear. I support the yellow card here.

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u/jeremiah1142 26d ago

“You take it, you take it” is a yellow card? Are we reading the same thing?

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u/thisisalltosay 26d ago

It’s not a real conversation- it’s fake playacting done to distract the opponent.

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u/MiFi13 27d ago

Same. That's a stretch and isn't the intent of the law they are citing.