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More on Red Cards Specific to WA Youth Soccer

Andrew Boyd provides some additional detail regarding red cards with respect to playing in Washington Youth Soccer leagues....

There are 7 different types of red cards, and each can have different consequences. When a player receives a red card, they cannot play in the match anymore, and if they were one of the players of record (the active players on the field during the match) the team may need to play short for the rest of the match.

Substitutes who are sent off do not require that the team play shorthanded. In addition, the recipient of a red card is suspended for at least one more match. The WYS disciplinary committee has established the following MINIMUM suspensions of a person receives a red card:


Penalties for being Sent Off:

Serious Foul Play: Examples include, but are not necessarily limited to: when a player, in a violent or dangerous manner intentionally holds, trips, pushes, charges or tackles an opponent from behind: 
     1 match

Violent Conduct: Examples include but are not necessarily limited to: striking or attempting to strike another player, team official or spectator, or unlawfully entering the field of play during an altercation:
     2 matches (3 if conduct is directed towards an official)

Spitting at another person:
     2 matches (3 if spitting at an official)

Denying a goal by handling the ball:
     1 match

Denying an obvious goal score opportunity by unlawful means:
     1 match

Foul or abusive language or gestures: Examples include, but are not necessarily limited to: Foul or abusive language said loud enough for the game official to hear, but not directed at a specific individual. Includes, racial, sexual, religious or ethnic slurs:
     1 match (not directed at another)


     2 matches (directed at a player)


     3 matches (directed at a referee)

Send Off for Second Cautionable Offense during a match:
     1 match
Suspensions can also be imposed if there is an accumulation of points from cards accumulated in the season. Cautions (Yellows) count as one point, and Send Offs (Reds) count as three. If a player receives a Send off because they received two cautions in a match, the total count for that game is set at three. There are 4 cases where point accumulations and cards can result in further suspensions:
• Players/coaches that accumulate three red cards/ejections in a seasonal year will be subject to disciplinary actions.

• Players that accumulate seven (7) points from red and/or yellow card accumulation during the seasonal year will be subject to disciplinary actions.

• A coach of a team receiving fifteen (15) points accumulated from red and/or yellow cards during the seasonal year, will be subject to disciplinary actions.

• The coach of a team that has four players who received red cards during the seasonal year will be subject to disciplinary actions.

Note also that “points” reset each season, and that state tournaments often have their own sections that talk about point accumulation within the tournament play. Points do not transfer between league play and tournament, but suspensions may transfer, if there are no more games from the competition that the player was suspended from (example, player receives a one game suspension from a red card received in the last game of the season, then the player must sit out their next WYS match, which may be the state tournament).

The Red Card

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Finishing the section on Disciplinary Sanctions from Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct, we focus on red cards.
 
A red card is given...

• only to players - not coaches, spectators, or other personnel - and...

• is a formal signal to the player that he or she has been sent-off (kicked out of the game) for...

• committing one of seven sending-off [red card] offences:

           1.  serious foul play

          2.  violent conduct

          3.  spitting at an opponent or any other person

          4.  denying the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by
               deliberately handling the ball (this does not apply to a goalkeeper within his
               own penalty area)

          5.  denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to an opponent moving towards
               the player’s goal by an offence punishable by a free kick or a penalty kick

          6.  using offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures

          7.  receiving a second caution [yellow card] in the same match

A player, substitute or substituted player who has been sent off must leave the vicinity of the field of play and the technical area..  The full text of the law pertaining to disciplinary sanctions (including yellow cards) is provided below.

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From Law 12

Disciplinary Sanctions

The yellow card is used to communicate that a player, substitute or substituted player has been cautioned.

The red card is used to communicate that a player, substitute or substituted player has been sent off.

Only a player, substitute or substituted player may be shown the red or yellow card.

The referee has the authority to take disciplinary sanctions from the moment he enters the field of play until he leaves the field of play after the final whistle.

A player who commits a cautionable or sending-off offence, either on or off the field of play, whether directed towards an opponent, a team-mate, the referee, an assistant referee or any other person, is disciplined according to the nature of the offence committed.

 Cautionable Offences

 A player is cautioned and shown the yellow card if he commits any of the following seven offences:

 • unsporting behaviour

 • dissent by word or action

 • persistent infringement of the Laws of the Game

 • delaying the restart of play

 • failure to respect the required distance when play is restarted with a corner kick, free kick or throw-in

 • entering or re-entering the fi eld of play without the referee’s permission

 • deliberately leaving the fi eld of play without the referee’s permission

A substitute or substituted player is cautioned if he commits any of the following three offences:

• unsporting behaviour

• dissent by word or action

• delaying the restart of play

Sending-off Offences

A player, substitute or substituted player is sent off [shown the red card] if he commits any of the following seven offences:

• serious foul play

 • violent conduct

• spitting at an opponent or any other person

• denying the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity
   by deliberately handling the ball (this does not apply to a goalkeeper within
   his own penalty area)

• denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to an opponent moving towards
  the player’s goal by an offence punishable by a free kick or a penalty kick

• using offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures

• receiving a second caution in the same match

A player, substitute or substituted player who has been sent off must leave the
vicinity of the field of play and the technical area.

The Yellow Card

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct is the section of FIFA's Laws of the Game that describes among other things, when yellow and red cards are given.

Basically, a yellow card is given...

• only to players - not coaches, spectators, or other personnel - and...
• is a formal signal to the player that he or she has been cautioned for...
• committing one of seven cautionable offences:

               1.  unsporting behaviour
               2.  dissent by word or action
               3.  persistent infringement of the Laws of the Game
               4.  delaying the restart of play
               5.  failure to respect the required distance when play is restarted with a corner kick, free
                    kick or throw-in
               6.  entering or re-entering the field of play without the referee’s permission
               7.  deliberately leaving the field of play without the referee’s permission

There are some fine strokes around this, but that's it in a nutshell.  An edited version of the actual text in the law is provided below.

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From Law 12

Disciplinary Sanctions




The yellow card is used to communicate that a player, substitute or substituted player has been cautioned.


The red card is used to communicate that a player, substitute or substituted player has been sent off.


Only a player, substitute or substituted player may be shown the red or yellow card.


The referee has the authority to take disciplinary sanctions from the moment he enters the field of play until he leaves the field of play after the final whistle.


A player who commits a cautionable or sending-off offence, either on or off the field of play, whether directed towards an opponent, a team-mate, the referee, an assistant referee or any other person, is disciplined according to the nature of the offence committed.


Cautionable Offences


A player is cautioned and shown the yellow card if he commits any of the following seven offences:


• unsporting behaviour


• dissent by word or action


• persistent infringement of the Laws of the Game


• delaying the restart of play


• failure to respect the required distance when play is restarted with a corner kick, free kick or throw-in


• entering or re-entering the fi eld of play without the referee’s permission


• deliberately leaving the fi eld of play without the referee’s permission

A substitute or substituted player is cautioned if he commits any of the following three offences:


• unsporting behaviour


• dissent by word or action


• delaying the restart of play

Adidas Kit - Womens & Girls

Here's our new uniform for the women and girls.  This is the first year that Eastside FC has had a women's cut uniform kit available and we're pleased that adidas and Eurosport were able to provide this to us.

We're still rounding up the photos of the training jacket, pants, backpack, ball, etc.  Stay tuned for the accessory posting.

As indicated yesterday, the logo's are provisional. The logo's are provisional. We're still looking at various logo color combinations as well as number styles. Additionally, we're hoping to secure a uniform sponsor which would incorporate the sponsor's logo, including perhaps an MLS/European style logo configuration with the sponsor's logo prominent on the chest. Stay tuned for updates on this.
Adult women's sizes:   XS, S, M, L, XL

Girls uniforms are the same color combination as the womens', however the uniform is a youth cut available in youth sizes.

Youth size range: XS, S, M, L, XL

And again, the youth XS and youth XL sizes are new to us in the switch to adidas.

If you have questions, please direct your inquiries to EFC's Uniform Program Manager, Suzi Kuenster, at suzikuenster@msn.com

Away jersey

Home jersey

Shorts (optional white short not shown)

Red sock

White sock

Adidas Kit - Mens & Boys

The photos of our new adidas kit are in.  Here they are for the men and boys uniforms.  We'll showcase the women and girls' kit in tomorrow's post. 

The logo's are provisional.  We're still looking at various logo color combinations as well as number styles.  Additionally, we're hoping to secure a uniform sponsor which would incorporate the sponsor's logo, including perhaps an MLS/European style logo configuration with the sponsor's logo prominent on the chest.  Stay tuned for updates on this.

Adult men's size range:   S, M, L, XL, 2XL

Boys uniforms are the same color combination as the mens', however the uniform is a youth cut available in youth sizes.

Youth size range:   XS, S, M, L, XL 

Both the youth XS and youth XL sizes are new to us in the switch to adidas.
If you have questions, please direct your inquiries to EFC's Uniform Program Manager, Suzi Kuenster, at suzikuenster@msn.com

Away jersey

Home jersey

Shorts (optional white short not shown)

Blue sock

White sock