Soccer, otherwise known as football, is a relatively simple sport. Eleven players play on each team who, aside from the goalkeeper, can't touch the ball with their hands and must put the ball in the ...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - FIFA wants to improve the offside rule, currently the source of frequent controversy, but it is difficult to find a consensus among the experts discussing the matter, the head of the ...

If there is only one defender (or none) between the attacker and the opposite goal at the moment of the pass, then the player ...

We've seen it time and time again this season from those Highbury boys in red. Freddie Ljungberg or Patrick Vieira pick the ball up in midfield, look up and thread the ball through the opposition's ...

The Fürth defender, caught off guard, ended his run on the ground. However, the rule is clear: it is the part of the body ...

After the Europa League match against Lyon, Betis manager Manuel Pellegrini put forward a bold idea to change football's rules. Unlike Arsène Wenger, who is championing a revision of the offside law, ...

Football’s rules are like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They’re always changing, sometimes blowing up entire timelines to fix problems. In 1994, a rule change made goalkeepers unable to pick up ...

Former Manchester City head coach Manuel Pellegrini has put forward an idea that would significantly rewrite the rulebook of the sport and perhaps improve football. The Chilean managed 167 matches as ...