The Sunday News
Continued from last week
4. The Players’ equipment for beach soccer
4.1 Safety: A player shall not use equipment or wear anything that is dangerous to himself/herself or another player, including any kind of jewelers, as determined by the referees.
4.2 Footwear: It is strictly forbidden to wear any kind of footwear or equipment that may cause injury to another player. The players shall be authorised to wear socks and/or elastic ankle and/or foot wraps.
4.3 Uniforms: The players’ uniforms consist of shorts and shirts. Use of plastic goggles for eye protection is allowed.
Players of the same team shall wear uniforms with the same design and colour, with clearly visible identification numbers on their shirts. The goalkeeper shall wear uniforms of colours contrasting with all other players and the referees. In case the two teams wears shirts or shorts of the same or similar colors, the host team will change their shirts and/or shorts. In a neutral stadium there will be a draw.
5. Refereeing
5.1 Referees; The game shall be directed and officiated by one 1st referee, one 2nd referee, a timekeeper, and a 3rd official. The 1st referee shall determine, before or during the game, if the conditions of the area of play and surrounding the area of play are satisfactory for safe play. The 1st referee and the 2nd referee shall wear uniforms of contrasting colors with the teams’ uniforms, and shall both use a whistle to officiate the game.
The 1st referee, at the end of the game, shall provide the appropriate authorities with a match report, including: date, time, location, denomination of the event, weather conditions, name and roaster of teams, final result, effective duration of the match, goal scorers, and explanation of eventual disciplinary actions taken against players, and/or team officials and/or any other incident which has occurred before, during or after the match.
5.2 Timekeeper or official of the game: The timekeeper shall be seated at the officials’ table, placed outside the perimeter zone in front of the substitution zone. They are responsible for controlling the game clock, which determines the time of play, commencing with the starting whistle, as indicated in Law 6.2. He indicates with a whistle or an air horn the end of each twelve (12) minute period and the end of the possible three (3) minutes of overtime period. Shall notify to the 3rd official the exact time when a player, sanctioned by the referees with a red card for the 2 minutes suspension and another substitute player is allowed to return into the game. The timekeeper shall also notify the referees on the exact time for the restart of the game after the three (3) minutes allowed to the teams in order to change sides at the end of each period. The time keeper or official is also responsible to authorise the players sanctioned by the referees with a red card to leave the playing area and after the end of 2 minutes suspension that another player can enter the match.
6. The Game
6.1 Start of Game; The 1st referee, in presence of both captains of the teams, shall make a coin toss before the start of the game to decide which team has the option to kick-off or the choice of the side of the court. The kick-off shall be made from the centre of the mid-court line following the whistle from a referee. That whistle shall start the clock and the game. The players of the opposing team shall be positioned at least at five meters (5.0m) from the ball, as signaled by one referee.
All players shall remain in their respective half of the field, until the starting whistle. After a goal, the game continues and restarts with a new kick-off, taken by the team that has conceded the goal. A goal cannot be scored directly from the kick-off, but only after the ball has been passed at least once.
6.2 Duration of the Game: The game has three (3) periods of twelve (12) minutes each. The teams shall have three (3) minutes in order to change sides at the end of each period, alternating the starting kick-off. There shall be another coin toss before the third period in order to determine which team has the option between the kick-off and the choice of the courtside. If the score is tied, there shall be a three (3) minute “golden goal” overtime period, in which the winner of the game shall be the first team to score a goal. The clock shall stop when: (1) a goal is scored; (2) at the referees’ discretion in case of waste of time, such as a player’s injury; or (3) when a penalty kick or a direct kick are awarded by one referee.
Clock shall be started again when one referee whistles the re-start of the game. In the case of a shot on goal, including a penalty kick, a free kick or a corner kick, is executed right before the end of regulation time, the game shall end when a goal is scored, when the goalkeeper saves the goal, when the ball hits the goal posts without entering into the goal or goes out of the court. At the end of each twelve (12) minute period, or at the end of the three (3) minutes of overtime if necessary, an official whistle or air horn shall signal the end of the period or game. After the end of the period or match, no other players’ action shall be valid.
6.3 Ball in and out of play: The ball is in play at all times from the start to the finish of the game, including when it rebounds from a goal post or the crossbar into the court, or it rebounds off either the 1st referee or the 2nd referee when they are on the court.
The base lines and the goal lines form part of the court. The ball is considered out of play when it touches outside the sidelines, outside the base lines, or it touches a player out of bounds. A player is considered “out of bounds” when he/she has touched the sand outside the boundary lines, attempting to play the ball.
6.4 Scoring a goal: A goal is scored when the ball entirely crosses over the goal line, in the air or on the ground between the goal posts and under the crossbar. The goal shall be validated, provided that no infringement of the Laws of the Game has been committed previously by the team scoring the goal, as determined by the referees, and has occurred during playing time as defined in Law.
6.5 How to win the match: At the end of the match, the winner shall be the team that has scored (1) the most goals or (2) the “golden goal”. If the tie persists, there shall be an alternate penalty shoot-out: the winner shall be the team that scores one more goal in an equal number of penalty kicks.
6.6 The dropped ball rule: A dropped ball is a way of restarting play after a temporary stoppage becomes necessary, while the ball is in play, for any reason not mentioned elsewhere in the Laws of the Game.
One referee drops the ball at the place where it was located when the play was stopped. Play restarts when the ball touches the sand. The ball is dropped again, in the same place, if it is touched by a player before it makes contact with the sand, or when the ball leaves the court after it makes contact with the sand, without a player touching it.
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