Soccer rules question

[pantone159]

There is one bit in the official rules that seems really strange to me.

Assume a team is taking a corner kick, say the Blue team is taking a corner against the Orange team. Now say that the Blue kick taker manages to knock the ball into their own goal, without it deflecting off of anybody else. An unlikely circumstance, sure, maybe the Blue player was trying to fake an injury and slipped while taking the kick.

My first reaction is that this would be an own goal against the Blue team, and the Orange team would get a point. But no - the rules are explicit, that there is no goal in this situation. (It would instead be a corner kick for the Orange.)

Similarly, if a player manages to take a throw in that goes directly into their own goal, it is also not a goal, instead they give up a corner.

Why are the rules this way? This seems like a strange thing to make a special case. Why shouldn't you be at fault for knocking the ball into your own net in those situations, just as in normal play?

 

[THEU]

pantone, I couldn't follow your question. Can you maybe try to re-type that one? Maybe use two real teams. Like the US playing Brasil so you can use some real names. I just couldn't follow was was going on in your question.

 

[pantone159]

Simplified - If a team is taking a corner kick, and knocks it directly into their own goal (not the goal they are aiming at), then the rules say this is NOT an own goal. Why?

Same thing for a throw-in: Throw it into your own goal and this is NOT an own goal.

I don't have any actual examples of this happening, so I sort of made up some teams.

 

[That's Right]

How in the HELL would somebody kick a corner kick into their own goal?

 

[TexonLongIsland]

Where is the keeper of the team taking the corner? Rolling on the ground laughing that his teammate slipped at the other end of the pitch?

 

[THEU]

How could that even happen? You are talking about one team taking a corner at the south end of a pitch and hitting it into their gown at the north end? I don't know how that could be a rule, because it just can't happen.

 

[chuychanga]

I bet he means the team is taking a goal kick, not a corner kick.

Suppose the person taking the goal kick ends up putting backspin on the ball and it curves back into his own goal. Is the result a corner kick for the other team or a goal?

 

[pantone159]

It is a rule, and the point is made explicitly.

The Link
Law 13 - The Direct Free Kick:

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[Napoleon]

I scored a goal on a throw in. I was in 1st grade and I threw the ball in towards the opponent's goal. It rolled and rolled and the goalie was kind of retarded I guess, because he tried to go down to pick it up but kind of fell over the ball and made a tunnel that the ball could roll through into the goal.

I don't know if maybe the ball touched the kid or if the refs just didn't know their ***, but we got the goal and it definitely didn't touch anyone before the goalie blew the save.

 

[pantone159]

If the goalie touches it, then it wasn't direct, and the goal counts.
The goalie (and everybody else) has to completely miss it for it not to count.

 

[kicksumass]

A throw in is like an indirect freekick i guess. I want to say its the same with a corner but you can score a goal directly from a corner. Just not an own goal so I don't know.

 

[wd40]

Maybe they made the rule to so they'd know what to do if a streaker got loose on the pitch. I mean, everyone would have to be looking the other way after the kick or throw-in.

 

[George Best]

This also applies to goal kicks. Say it was insanely windy, and a goalie took a free kick that blew back into his own goal. It would result in a corner for the opposition.

 

[BolivianBulldog]

Throw ins are indirect so it would have to touch somebody.

Since goal kicks and corners are direct, any own goal coming off them would be just as if you put it over the touch line. Why anybody would take a direct towards your own goal is beyond me except for passes back to the keeper.