Talk:Goal kick

Infringements

"this is punishable by an indirect free kick to the defending team from where the offence occurred". Punishing the defending team by giving them a free kick? Surely wrong somewhere. Mark 00:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Also Rugby of both codes

A kick at goal in either codes can also be called a goal kick. Might want to include a note or a redirect in the article.Londo06 12:17, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Merger

For the discussion on the proposed merger please see here

Lucy-marie (talk) 00:13, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Law 18 redirect

Why does "Law 18" redirect to the Goal Kick page? Law 18 is code for common sense and has little to do with goal kicks.

Gameking3002 (talk) 04:44, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

• Good spot. I have nominated the redirect for deletion. --LukeSurl ^{t c} 11:50, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Scoring directly from goal kick

Under "Procedure", the article currently states "A goal can not be scored directly from a goal kick against the opposing team. An own goal cannot be scored from a goal kick; in the highly unlikely circumstance that the ball happened to land directly into the kicker's own goal a corner kick would be awarded to the opposing team."

The first part is clearly wrong. Law 16 on the FIFA website states "A goal may be scored directly from a goal kick, but only against the opposing team." So you can score against the opponent, but not against yourself (ie, an own goal won't be allowed). I've made the correction.

Rainjar (talk) 14:37, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Halftime or end of the match

Goalkicks must not be created at the end of the first half or at the end of the match. --213.225.0.173 (talk) 20:41, 24 November 2016 (UTC).