Buff6 said:
King Koda said:
Maybe not a perfectly officiated match. Here are images of the kick from spot which was saved but the AR said the goalie left her line early.
Shots were taken from video as the ball was kicked and just after.
Sorry, I'm bringing this back up. We had a tournament where the girl topped the ball and it slow rolled to the goal. Naturally, not even a doubt that ball wasn't going in and they called the GK for leaving the line early. Tape showed she didn't.
So next tournament I have a conversation with officials at tournament on this issue. How can they know, unless it is obvious that the GK left the line early? They say, " we have eyes" and I say, "no way you can have your eyes both places". I honestly thought maybe they do it like outs at first base, watch the bag and listen for the ball to hit the glove, in soccer watch the line and listen for the kick. In the above example, she topped the ball so there is no sound, thus the reason for my question.
Obviously, my daughter is a GK.
Unless the GK is like 5-feet off the line (as in the whole stadium can see it), I won't call it either. Most refs' I've worked with won't call it either. In that post above, warned or not, she is clearly on the line.
Also, took a training class a few weeks back about calling off sides in close timed situations (the attacker is running full speed past a slow moving back or even static 2nd to last defender). You're brain actually will process a guy as OS, but when you watch it on video, it's not even close and the attacker was in fact not OS. The time it takes for your eye to brain to decision actually fools you...it's like a 1/10th of a second or something.
Same situation with the GK. They can look to the eye like they move off the line when in fact they don't.
