10 football rules you DIDN'T KNOW existed!

guys and girls in today's episode we are

looking at 10 unknown football rules

things that you don't usually encounter

in regular football games and no matter

how informed you think you are about

football I'm sure there's a bunch of

rules you're gonna hear about for the

first time let's go number one if you

score a goal but the ball goes flat on

the way to the goal the goal doesn't

count the reason for this very unlikely

scenario is that the ball must be pumped

or more officially the ball must be of

proper condition at all times so as soon

as the ball is not in proper condition

the game should be stopped now I did

find a clip where a player actually

scores in the Champions League with a

ball that basically explodes midway

through the air and to my knowledge the

goal it actually counts probably because

this is very difficult for the referees

to spots

obviously the likelihood of the ball

ever exploding in your football match is

well quite flat but now you know number

2 yellow card for an illegal celebration

remains even if the goal is disallowed

for some reason football lawmakers felt

the need to add this rule for the 2019

to 20 season and as the name suggests if

you score a goal for example take your

shirt off as you celebrate what a var

check this allows your goal well you're

still gonna be booked for an illegal

celebration according to the rule makers

this is because the impact is the same

as if the goal was awarded so don't get

angry if you celebrate illegally get a

yellow card and your goal won't even

count number three you can be sent off

before the match even starts now

you may or may not have been on the

receiving end of a red card in your

career but from now on just be aware

that if you're acting like a complete

fool or ready to ring warm up the ref

has every right to dismiss you before

the game is even kicked up you could for

example say something horribly offensive

to the referee or player from the other

team or in the case of patrice evra he

was dismissed from the game after

attacking a fan during warmup in 2017

once again this is a rule most of us

don't ever have to worry about as long

as you behave properly before and after

kickoff

number four the amount of players

allowed to take penalty kicks in the

shootout must be equal for both teams in

simple language this means that if a

player from Team a gets sent off during

the actual playing time and we go to

penalties team B then has to exclude one

of their players from the shootout as

well this happened for example in the

2006 World Cup final between Italy and

France and I'll give you a bit of time

to try and guess which player from Team

Italy missed the penalty shootout

because of this rule but to run through

the whole thing

Zidane was very famously sent off in the

hundred and tenth minute of the game and

since France had only ten players on the

pitch going into the penalties team

Italy had to exclude a player from the

shootouts

did you guess who it was well the

correct answer is ganar KATUSA who

finished playing the 420 minutes but

didn't stand with the rest of team Italy

in the center circle during penalties

because of this very rule but I'm pretty

sure he's more than happy with the final

outcome number five you could start the

game which is seven players we all know

an official football game consists of

two teams with 11 players each on the

pitch but before kickoff if for whatever

reason your team was short of players

you could technically start playing with

just seven players which is the minimum

requirements for the game to go on for

the same reason in the 11 decide game

your own field team can get a maximum of

4 red cards fifth one would stop the

game as you would then have less than

seven players on the pitch keep in mind

that this rule does not include

substitute players they can get as many

red cards as possible so as long as you

have seven legal players on the pitch

the game can get started and go on

although it would probably not be a lot

of fun to start a game already four

players down number 6 no attacking

players closer than 1 meter from the

wall this is another rule that was

officially implemented in the game from

June 1st 2019 the rule is that when

there's wall of three or more defenders

the attackers are not allowed within one

meter of the wall when the kick is taken

otherwise the team will be penalised

with an indirect free key according to

the rule makers this new addition was

implemented because attacker standing

very close to or in the defensive wall

at a free-kick often caught

management problems and waste time

there's no legitimate tactical

justification for attackers to be in the

wall and their presence is against the

spirit of the game and often damages the

image of the game so from now on you're

unfortunately not allowed within one

meter of the wall when your team has a

free-kick and if you notice your

opposing team breaking this rule in your

game you gotta tell the referee to check

out this episode number seven you can't

score an own goal from a free kick or

throwing in fact you can never score an

own goal directly with any kind of play

that restarts the game whether it's a

free kick corner kick goal kick throwing

or penalty kick but if you do play the

ball into your own net basically the

ball crossed the goal line without

anyone else touching it and since your

touch was the last one a corner kick

should be given to the opposing team so

to put it in simple language if you take

a free kick and score an own goal

without anyone else touching the ball as

embarrassing as the moment would be the

goal shooting counts again this is one

of those rules that you're most likely

never gonna experience unless something

insane happens but regardless it's a fun

one to know number eight the team that

wins the toss can now choose to take the

kick off or which goal to attack this is

a quick one as it's pretty

straightforward but in the past the

captain who won the coin toss could only

choose which goal to attack but he can

now choose to start the game instead now

this is another reason addition to the

official football rulebook and while it

may not be the most meaningful one well

now you know it exists number nine in

penalty situations the goalkeeper must

not be touching the goal post crossbar

or nets they must not be moving in short

the referee should not signal for the

penalty kick to be taken if for example

the goalkeeper is smacking the crossbar

to try and intimidate the penalty taker

and the goal starts shaking now I at

least don't ever recall seeing the

referee delaying the penalty kick

because the goalkeeper is moving the

goal but no matter what it's a roll and

I guess it's mainly the referees who

really need to be aware of this one and

speaking of goalkeepers lastly number 10

goalies can hold the ball for maximum of

six seconds many of us know that after

catching the ball

goalkeepers can't obviously hold

to the ball forever that would be stupid

and the official time is set at six

seconds while most of the times this

rule is not super heavily enforced

usually it just causes the opposition

players to get frustrated

for example this incident with mini la

holding on to the ball for way too long

resulted in an indirect free kick to the

opposition still it's quite rare to see

the referee penalizing this action but

now you know about the six second rule

and that's it for the 10 quite strange

rules you most likely haven't heard of

before let us know in the comments down

below what other strange rules you're

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