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Regulation Method for a Throw-in

1. The player doing the throw-in faces the field of play.

2. The player has part of each foot either on the touchline or on the ground outside the touchline.

3. The player uses both hands to throw the ball.

4. The player delivers the ball from behind and over his head.

What is the penalty for showboating?

There is little in sports that is more annoying than watching an athlete — especially one from the opposing team — ungracefully celebrate a goal with showboating. FIFA agrees, because rules state, “While it is permissible for a player to demonstrate his joy when a goal has been scored, the celebration must not be excessive.” In the Laws of the Game, referees are specifically instructed to issue a caution when a goal-scorer makes gestures which are provocative, derisory, or inflammatory, climbs on a perimeter fence, removes his shirt over his head, or covers his head with his shirt.

What is the difference between “impeding” and “obstruction”?

If a player is not playing the ball, but is preventing someone else from moving toward the ball, he is impeding the other player. That is a foul. This used to be called “obstruction,” and often still is, but FIFA prefers that the term “obstruction” be reserved for when a player in possession of the ball blocks another player from getting to the ball, which, when performed in the right manner, is not a foul, but a matter of skill.