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by Rahim Salayev on February 23rd, 2005

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What is the "shoulder-to-shoulder" rule?

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  • by trashcity on February 24th, 2005

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    It relates to the legal way in which a player can contact an opponent fairly, without being called for a foul.

    In their 2003 publication, "Advice to Referees on the laws of the game", the US Soccer Federation says, "Although the fair charge is commonly defined as 'shoulder to shoulder', this is not a requirement, and at certain age levels where heights may vary greatly, may not even be possible... The Law (Law 12) does require that the charge be directed toward the area of the shoulder and not toward the center of the opponent's back (the spinal area)...It is a violation of Law 12 to perform an otherwise fair charge against an opponent who is already being fairly charged by another player."

    The full document can be found here [Adobe Acrobat required]
    http://www.massref.net/papers/advice2003.pdf

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