explain me the OFFSIDE rules?..please?

Question

and use a simple English okay..perhaps an example..thanx =)

Answer 1

Imagine a door with two guards:

* If you stay outside and don't try to pass the guards, you're okay.
* If you try to pass the guards without a key, you'll be arrested.
* If you have a key and try to pass the guards, you can enter.

The offside rule is the same.

* If there are two opponents between you and the goal (two guards between you and the door), you're onside
* If you go past the opponents without the ball (past the guards without a key), it's an offside foul.
* If you have the ball and go past the opponents (you have a key and pass the guards), you're okay.

Answer 2

Offside is probably the most difficult rule to explain, considering how it all comes down to relative positioning... but in simple terms (and with player names from England):

- if England is attacking, and Steven Gerrard (midfielder) has the ball and wants to pass it to Michael Owen (who's a striker and plays up front), Gerrard cannot pass it forward to Owen if Owen is closer to the goalkeeper than any defender from the other team because Owen would be 'offside'. To decide if Owen is offside, what counts is Owen's position when Gerrard begins his pass, not when the ball reaches Owen because by that time defenders from the other team have time to come back on Owen.

So if Owen is 'behind' the defenders, he cannot receive a ball to score, otherwise teams would just leave a player by himself at all times near the other teams' goal, and simply boot it to him anytime they're on the attack.

Now, the only exception to this rule is if Owen, in the example, is in his own half when the ball is passed to him. So if you assume the defenders from the other team decide to go up and score on a corner, but then England get the ball, if Owen is still in England's half, he can receive the ball even though there may not be any defenders between himself and the opposing goalkeeper.

There you have it... a bit complicated, but nothing too daunting.

Answer 3

Well, some answers are close to the rule.
The thing is this. If there is an offensive player closer than any defensive (except for the goalie) to the goal zone AND he is passed the ball, then that player is offside. Then the game is stopped and then resumed from the place where the ball was kicked last, now in possession of the defense.

Answer 4

usually its the best to scream "OFFSIDE" when the other team scores.

when your own team scores it's actually never offside.

(this is the drunk-guy-in-the-bar explanation, sorry, the real one is way too difficult for me to explain...it's something like if a player plays the ball forward, and the player who is about to recieve the ball does not have two or more players (including the keeper normally)between him and the goal, then he's offside, but only when he is already on the half of the opposite team when the ball was being played towards him......see, the first explanation was much easier)

Answer 5

An attacker have to be on or inside the parallel line of the last two defenders. Please watch the highlights of the Holland Vs Ivory Cost match and the goal scored by rood van nistralrooy and you are going to get a good idea about the offside rule.

Answer 6

Dear Anna,
Very Simple:
Imagine team A is attacking and Team B is defending.for sure there is a space between B defenders and their goalkeeper.OK?
now A players should pass the ball to one of their players to score a goal.If the player who is going to receive the ball and score it locate between the above mentioned space,Then he is in Offside.

Please check the link below on pages 60-66.
Some possible Offsides are describe by pictures:

http://www.fifa.com/documents/fifa/laws/LOTG2005_e.pdf

Best Regrads.............Iranian Bobby

Answer 7

Simple, When a player of your team psses the ball to you, you have to be infront of the last player of the other team. Other wise you will be considered sneaking behind them and that would be offside.

Answer 8

ok..offside is when the bll is passed to a player who is closer to the opposing goal than the defenders are. so..it's considered cheating, cause it takes him less time to reach the goal, and the defenders can't do anything to stop him. got it? hope I wasn't too confusing

Answer 9

ok..offside is when the bll is passed to a player who is closer to the opposing goal than the defenders are. so..it's considered cheating, cause it takes him less time to reach the goal, and the defenders can't do anything to stop him. got it? hope I wasn't too confusing

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