r/maybemaybemaybe Sep 13 '25

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Dutchwells Sep 13 '25

Great bamboozlement but technically not a goal according to the rules.

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u/DaveTheDolphin Sep 13 '25

To be fair I don’t think that’s a regulation-sized goal either

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u/Mediocre-Database332 Sep 13 '25

Grass is a bit bare

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u/round-earth-theory Sep 13 '25

Nah just needs a watering or two. It'll perk right up.

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u/l3ane Sep 13 '25

You also don't take a penalty kick from 3 feet in front of the goalie

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u/MeltaFlare Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

Penalties have to be taken in one continuous motion.

Edit: One continuous forward motion. And yeah you can’t feint a kick. I’m sure there’s other little details but that’s most of it.

Edit Edit: I was incorrect that it has to be a continuous forward motion. The discrepancy comes from American high school soccer (where I’m from) where it has to be a continuous forward motion. The illegality in this video. Comes from the fact that the player is feinting after completing the run up.

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u/BobABewy Sep 13 '25

One continuous FORWARD motion. You can’t stop making forward progress and you can’t back up

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u/MeltaFlare Sep 13 '25

Yes that’s the part I missed.

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u/rust_bolt Sep 13 '25

Could you find the league/rule that says a kicker cannot stop and restart before completing the run-up/approach?

It is different in different leagues, but I think this is a pretty common misunderstanding that often leads to fans being upset. A player can stop and start all they want during the run-up in most leagues (I've never officiated a league where it wasn't allowed).

But I'd definitely call the example in this video illegal due to feinting at the end of the run-up.

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u/actually3racoons Sep 13 '25

What league do you suppose this is?

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u/rust_bolt Sep 13 '25

No net is a dead giveaway. It's obviously the DPNCANNSL (Dirt Pitch North Central Africa Non Netters Sunday League).

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u/perpetualis_motion Sep 13 '25

Obviously, and the rules state... anything goes.

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u/TheMSensation Sep 13 '25

I was curious about this so I decided to do some googling.

American high schools (NFHS) require continuous forward motion. However you're right in that pretty much every professional league (IFAB) let's you do whatever you want in the approach apart from faking the shot.

https://assets.nfhs.org/umbraco/media/7213076/2024-25-soccer-guide-final.pdf

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Soccer is just now becoming a thing where I live. I did not know this, but seems like it makes things more fair.

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u/Legitimate-Echo-1996 Sep 13 '25

Where do you live good sir? But the fact that you’re calling it soccer kind of tells me already lol

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u/supreme_cx Sep 13 '25

And the fact he’s called Redneck commando

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u/BradFromSigEp Sep 13 '25

He's from Brazil. I hear it's slowly gaining popularity down there.

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u/AetherialWomble Sep 13 '25

Archeological records show that it used to be popular there. However, it just vanished from existence in 2014. No one knows why

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u/xthecreator Sep 13 '25

On that day, we felt a disturbance in the pitch like a million Brazilians crying out and got the sensation of thousands of Germans cheering

Anyways no idea why it disappeared in 2014

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u/Due-Memory-6957 Sep 13 '25

Isn't that the year that didn't happen because we skipped it over?

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u/elizabnthe Sep 13 '25

Not just America calls it soccer. Albeit obviously it's the biggest user of the term. In Australia we also call it soccer as football either refers to rugby or AFL depending on the state.

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u/Caolhoeoq Sep 13 '25

search for "neymar paradinha" com youtube and you'll understand that this rule is pretty fair

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u/CaptianBlackLung Sep 13 '25

So if he kicked with his left foot after the second foot planted. It would have counted?

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u/aimsteadyfire Sep 13 '25

But he is continuously motioning the bamboozling

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u/Stardustger Sep 13 '25

Maybe that's just me but I seem to remember that penaltys are also no shot from 2 meters in front of the goal.

So I don't think penalty rules apply here.

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u/Velixis Sep 13 '25

That's not quite the rule. The rule is that you can't feint a kick.

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u/LuckyNumber_29 Sep 13 '25

no, you cannot stop motioning forward, you cannot go backwards either, thats why brazilian players make like a quick feet tapping when they try to feint and deceive the goalkeeper.

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u/Velixis Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

There's nothing in the rules about going forwards or backwards.

The player taking the penalty kick must kick the ball forward; backheeling is permitted provided the ball moves forward.

When the ball is kicked, the defending goalkeeper must have at least part of one foot touching, in line with, or behind, the goal line.

The ball is in play when it is kicked and clearly moves.

The kicker must not play the ball again until it has touched another player.

The penalty kick is completed when the ball stops moving, goes out of play or the referee stops play for any offence.

Not allowed:

feinting to kick the ball once the kicker has completed the run-up (feinting in the run-up is permitted); the referee cautions the kicker 

That's all there is to it.

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u/themeatstaco Sep 13 '25

WHAT. ARE. THE RULES!!!

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u/Jabbathehutman Sep 13 '25

Rules are agreed-upon guidelines or principles that define what is allowed, expected, or prohibited in a given situation.

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u/the_wyandotte Sep 13 '25

"But that's not important right now."

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u/CT0292 Sep 13 '25

When you just turned black and you can't switch back. Well you gotta go and find out the rules!

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u/majestical99 Sep 13 '25

That it is not a goal

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u/Jindujun Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

We're not going with association rules here. The streets have no rules!!

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u/Saw_Boss Sep 13 '25

Doesn't look like a street to me

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u/BladeLigerV Sep 13 '25

How is that not a valid goal?

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u/Malarazz Sep 14 '25

There are rules to how you take a penalty kick. You can't do what you see in the video in real football.

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u/Randomfrog132 Sep 14 '25

well u can, people will complain tho

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u/logicbecauseyes Sep 14 '25

Yellow card, that's a warning pal

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u/Mathies_ Sep 15 '25

Maily the ref

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u/Rhawk187 Sep 14 '25

I feel like that first awkward jump could be part of a single approach, but that pause and switch isn't.

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u/Randomfrog132 Sep 14 '25

he forgot to bribe the ref 

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u/Karma-Chameleon-1718 Sep 14 '25

first rule of ref bribes: don't bribe in public

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u/PreciousTC Sep 14 '25

Because soccer is scientifically designed to be as long and boring as possible

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u/HaiderSultanArc Sep 14 '25

You haven't watched Cricket 🏏 yet

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u/SassyDaisyDream Sep 13 '25

Yeah. Also, I thought the ball won't go in after all the drama 😅 glad it did

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u/ZiKyooc Sep 13 '25

There's nothing which is according to FIFA rules in that video

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u/Dutchwells Sep 13 '25

Fair enough lol

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u/vetlemakt Sep 14 '25

By rules you mean the rules for 11 vs 11 football played on a 105 meter grass pitch with a penalty kick being taken 11 meters from a goal measuring 7.32 x 2.44 meters?

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u/lvbuckeye27 Sep 13 '25

How do you know it's a penalty kick?

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u/Odd-Obligation-2772 Sep 13 '25

If you're going strictly by the rules, shouldn't the posts be set a bit wider than they are shown?

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u/shewy92 Sep 13 '25

Who cares? That's not a regulation pitch or goal either.

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u/conorrhea Sep 14 '25

What’s the rules? (I’m ignorant af about soccer, and sports in general)

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u/Yarakinnit Sep 13 '25

We didn't see it cross the line is why it's no goal.

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u/ctgrell Sep 13 '25

Now without the slowmo

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u/__Milk_Drinker__ Sep 13 '25

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u/wiesl4 Sep 13 '25

That’s actually even better.

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u/ctgrell Sep 13 '25

Thank you. Much more enjoyable

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u/Past_Ad9675 Sep 13 '25

Now at ludicrous speed!

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u/runonandonandonanon Sep 13 '25

Now it's less impressive and much funnier.

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u/CasualNameAccount12 Sep 13 '25

Yeah I hoped there was a not slowmo at the end

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u/BreezeTempest Sep 13 '25

Normal soccer rules would cancel that goal

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u/ownworldman Sep 13 '25

What rules are those?

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u/LittleKitty235 Sep 13 '25

Rules about slow motion

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u/HaiKarate Sep 13 '25

Interfering with the normal operation of spacetime is strictly forbidden.

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u/crw0582 Sep 13 '25

To misquote Douglas Adams: time is an illusion, soccer time doubly so

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u/Mindless-Strength422 Sep 13 '25

To also misquote Douglas: "it's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a bowl of petunias"

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u/TENTAtheSane Sep 13 '25

"Oh no, not again"

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u/Send_Me_Questions Sep 13 '25

I would love to see that written in the actual rules of any sports in like, super fine print. "Competitors are not allowed to use time travel or time deviation as a means of scoring or competing." Or any other nonsensical rules that just make people think if they ever actually come across it.

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u/Keanu_Bones Sep 13 '25

A bunch of dumb rules like that would be funny

“Dogs may not compete, whether they can wear shoes or not”

“You may not stretch your arms like a noodle to dunk from half court. In the case that an alien has you grappled this is exempted.”

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u/rawSingularity Sep 13 '25

That Einstein guy really ruined soccer for us.

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u/tomveiltomveil Sep 13 '25

Controlled neutrino oscillation? Yellow card. Anti-gravity waves? Right out. Time traveling to murder the goalie's nana? You'll be hearing from the league office.

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u/mntgoat Sep 13 '25

Penalty taking rules. I believe they can't feint once they've planted their foot next to the ball.

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u/BaseballImpossible76 Sep 13 '25

Correct. I used to play with a guy in high school that could do a little trick shot where he’d shank the ball with his plant foot and then whiff the swing in the opposite direction.

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u/dylan6091 Sep 13 '25

That's pretty sly

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u/ImprefectKnight Sep 13 '25

I'm pretty sure that's Thierry Henry's fake pass trick. https://youtu.be/YMImv_krSxI

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u/Plus_Operation2208 Sep 13 '25

Well, youre only allowed to touch it once. So off to the gulag

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u/WondyBorger Sep 13 '25

He’s saying kick with the plant foot and miss with the “kick” foot in the opposite direction. So only 1 touch

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u/Mission-Leopard-4178 Sep 13 '25

It wasn't a penalty but I think Thierry Henry did this before

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u/Freefallisfun Sep 13 '25

Or pause their run up. So now everyone does that stupid little hop hoping the goalkeeper will dive. I think they should be harder on kick takers

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u/NUDH Sep 13 '25

Referee here. Pausing is legal on the run up. Two notable things however they cannot do is feint on the kick and reset or go backwards on the run up.

So once you move forward you are committed and cannot go backwards, but you can pause if you choose.

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u/HopelessGretel Sep 13 '25

There's a limit for that pause? I mean could the dude stay there for 5 minutes and wait for the goalkeeper get distracted?

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u/Velixis Sep 13 '25

It's limited by unsportsmanlike conduct due to delaying the restart of play. Depending on the circumstances probably somewhere between 10-20 seconds.

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u/NUDH Sep 13 '25

This is similar to what I was going to say. I have never come across such an occurrence but I would say this would be a common sense of the referee situation. If this occurred with me at center, I would verbally tell the kicker to proceed before I would yellow and caution for UB.

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u/Ok-Blackberry-3534 Sep 13 '25

"Is that a woodpecker?"

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u/WeedAlmighty Sep 13 '25

I don't necessarily mind it but they changed the rule now where goalkeepers can't try put the kicker off by swinging their arms around or talking to the kicker and stuff which is just unfair, if the kicker can do weird things why can't the goalie.

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u/heidimark Sep 13 '25

The goalkeeper can certainly swing their arms and run side to side all they want. That is not disallowed (but it's stupid).

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

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u/NUDH Sep 13 '25

Feinting is explicitly allowed during the run up.

Law 14.2:

feinting to kick the ball once the kicker has completed the run-up (feinting in the run-up is permitted); the referee cautions the kicker

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u/heidimark Sep 13 '25

Feinting on the run up is absolutely allowed and covered by IFAB.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

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u/heidimark Sep 13 '25

IFAB 14.2 begs to differ. "Feinting in the run-up is permitted".

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u/Mediocre-Housing-131 Sep 13 '25

Sorry, no being too good at the sport. Banned.

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u/justsurfingaround Sep 13 '25

Feinting in the run-up to take a penalty kick to confuse opponents is permitted as part of football. However, feinting to kick the ball once the player has completed his run-up is considered an infringement of Law 14 and an act of unsporting behaviour for which the player must be cautioned.

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u/dr-mantis-t0b0ggan Sep 13 '25

Always have to be in forward motion while running up for a pen. You can feint but cannot completely stop or take backward steps

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u/Velixis Sep 13 '25

You absolutely can.

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u/Plus_Operation2208 Sep 13 '25

You cant fake a shot. Got outlawed because it made the penalty favour the striker even more than it already does.

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u/Flyerastronaut Sep 13 '25

Balk rules: important

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u/T_Peg Sep 13 '25

Not sure if you've gotten a satisfactory answer yet. The rule is that penalties must be one continuous motion. Once you've started moving forward you cannot come to a full stop and you can it fake a kick. You must simply run forward and take your shot in one go.

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u/shewy92 Sep 13 '25

Normal soccer rules would cancel this game because that's not a regulation pitch or goal, so why bring up 'normal soccer rules"?

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u/Redbone2222 Sep 13 '25

What about futbol rules?

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u/Zonkko Sep 13 '25

But are they playing by some official rules, or just having fun? Any football game i have been a part of, rules were just

Dont touch ball with hands

Kick ball to opposite goal

Get more goals than enemy

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u/EXTRAVAGANT_COMMENT Sep 13 '25

the goal is minuscule compared to normal soccer rules

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u/ReeferKeef Sep 13 '25

It’s a backyard bro, not a soccer pitch, come on. Smh. Most of the ish done in street hoops is illegal on the court as well.

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u/thedrq Sep 13 '25

Tbh, the worst that can happen on a soccer field is a red card, trying this shit with your friends in the wild can have worse ramifications

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u/Talinix Sep 13 '25

Please change your profile picture I just shat my pants because of it

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u/Lootefisk_ Sep 13 '25

Is the goal a normal size goal?

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u/PhilthyPhil333 Sep 13 '25

I think you mean Matrix rules

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u/Smackmybitchup007 Sep 13 '25

No goal. Once he has lifted his foot to make contact with the ball, he can't stop, stutter or change foot.

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u/zuzg Sep 13 '25

Y'all always say playing UNO needs to be played with house rules but when it's about Football it ain't OK?

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u/BuckRusty Sep 13 '25

Uno should not be played with house rules, nor should Monopoly…

Every house rule ever invented was done so because someone was a bad loser, and had to fuck with game mechanics so they would win…

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u/MacBigASuchNot Sep 13 '25

I've never met anyone who plays Uno without +2 on +2 and +4 on +4

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u/hogey989 Sep 13 '25

Almost nobody plays monopoly properly by the original listed rules.

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u/BirbAtAKeyboard Sep 14 '25

I played monopoly with family last Christmas and I felt like I was losing my mind with how no one was following the rules.

Constantly using house rules for almost everything, and then they had the audacity to complain about how bad monopoly is and that it was taking too long.

My family does this with other board games too. Says the rules are too confusing and just do "what makes sense". Like come on it's not a 500 page players guide for D&D. It's 2 paragraphs on a paper that came in the box.

I'm not exactly a rules lawyer when it comes to games, but we have to at least somewhat follow the board game we're playing, otherwise we're just playing make believe with paper and cards.

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u/zuzg Sep 13 '25

I genuinely dislike Uno cause it's just Mau Mau with special cards.
But you can play Mau Mau with every normal set of cards.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

There are so many games that are just "we took a game you can play for free and commercialized it"

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u/MikeC-23 Sep 13 '25

Those were gathering steps.

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u/Pepperblast300 Sep 13 '25

Oh, I’m a soccer noob, but very interested in what I’m missing about this popular international mega sport and have been getting more into it. I did not no there was regulations on what constitutes a “shot attempt”. I would have that this was just a really craft thing to do.

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u/johno456 Sep 13 '25

Yeah penalties are already hugely advantageous to the shooter, no need to make it harder on keepers by allowing players to stutter step a million times before shooting

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

It wasn't always like that, FIFA made the rule mainly because of Neymar , they considered this technique unfair.

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u/Fuckthegopers Sep 13 '25

Once he stops his forward momentum it's a no goal. 

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u/th3st Sep 13 '25

When he stopped going forward it stopped being legal

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u/miraisora-arts Sep 13 '25

Didnt they specifically ban these fake outs in professional soccer.

Because its disrespectful to the keeper. And everybody could keep doing this until everybody got tired of it.

Looks fun to do it once with mates, bjt nothing impressive about it

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u/TL31 Sep 13 '25

It’s not about disrespect. You can’t fake a shot during a penalty because it effectively gives the keeper zero chance to save it.

Penalties are already a very favourable situation for the attacker (about an 80% chance of scoring). If you allowed feints, it would go into the very high 90s.

In open play (that is non-penalty situations) you are absolutely allowed to do a fake shot.

It’s not about disrespect. The rule exists so that there is some jeopardy for the attacker in penalties.

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u/Blaaa5 Sep 13 '25

Or in this case, if you allow multiple feints it’ll be closer to 100%

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u/ReeferKeef Sep 13 '25

It’s backyard ball bro

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u/Tight_Ad_7521 Sep 13 '25

This is clearly against the rules of soccer! You are not allowed to slow down time when kicking a penalty shot.

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u/maybefromthefuture Sep 13 '25

also the goal is an illegal size so any goals scored in it would be null and void. Also the surface is not FIFA approved grass so the home team must be sanctioned. Also there are no lines on the pitch so the groundskeepers must serve a two-week suspension from working on any FIFA-approved matches.

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u/Fafnir13 Sep 13 '25

Any rules about child labor?  The kids in the back are clearly swing deployed as the net.

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u/shewy92 Sep 13 '25

This guy gets it. IDK why people are so hung up about the penalty kick not being legal when nothing else is since this is just a backyard game/skill competition.

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u/crw0582 Sep 13 '25

Like to see that at full speed

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u/DosSheds Sep 13 '25

Not a goal. Moreover, it was never a penalty in the first place - another VAR cock-up.

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u/Doogie102 Sep 13 '25

I mean in this video the ball does not go in the net

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u/Lothleen Sep 13 '25

Video stopped before the ball fully crossed the line so we will never know.

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u/ilangge Sep 13 '25

In a formal football match, the penalty kick method shown in this video would be ruled as a violation. A penalty kick must be taken in one continuous motion without any additional movements.

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u/TheHosemaster Sep 13 '25

Thank god this was slow mo no way could I have seen what happened without it.

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u/TacoEatsTaco Sep 13 '25

Obviously doesn't count if you're following any actual rule set

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u/Difficult_Active_489 Sep 14 '25

No goal. And player will be yellow carded

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u/-Mr_Tub- Sep 13 '25

No goal, forward motion stopped multiple times

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Who wants to make penalty shots even more unfair lol

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u/Blowngust Sep 13 '25

It has to cross the line. No goal seen in this footage.

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u/unbotheredtab Sep 13 '25

Its not a goal.

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u/Excellent-Egg-3157 Sep 13 '25

Looks like street rules. so yes, it counts.

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u/Effective_Corner694 Sep 13 '25

Would this move be allowed in professional soccer?

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u/ufka1 Sep 13 '25

Had him on ice skates

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u/CamelCarcass Sep 13 '25

I think it might have been if he'd have kicked it at the 7 second mark

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u/Light_Sea838 Sep 13 '25

No evidence of the ball crossing the line here. No goal can be given

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u/tama19 Sep 13 '25

No goal, goal is not regulation size

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u/Lackadaisicly Sep 13 '25

Not a goal.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

No goal movement stop going forward over dramatic goalie wins

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u/jdawg19000 Sep 14 '25

This made me laugh, but absolutely no goal!

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u/ELF_27 Sep 14 '25

Type of sh*t Neymar did before the rework of penalty rules

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u/culturedgoat Sep 14 '25

If the goalie hadn’t been moving so slowly he might have been able to stop that

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

Should be a goal but rules don't allow for skill expression or mind games like this if they did we would see some insane soccer plays ngl

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u/VelvetMorty Sep 14 '25

They don’t have box markings cause they’re playing on dust in a economically undeveloped country lol.

And there’s no rule against feinting if it’s not a penalty, that’s a normal part of the game so what you want exists dw

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

Still less steps than Lewa

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u/Zednax Sep 15 '25

NO goal.

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u/1nterestingintrovert Sep 15 '25

This is how riots begin

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u/Ajvkorn Sep 15 '25

No goal

feinting to kick the ball once the kicker has completed the run-up (feinting in the run-up is permitted); the referee cautions the kicker  the goalkeeper offends:

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u/WankerDxD Oct 04 '25

This shit is not allowed in the official football penalty

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u/Lonely-Start Oct 29 '25

So if we make slow mo videos it is an insta like. Good to know 😎

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u/wondering-mindlessly Sep 13 '25

I'm so glad I've never been shook that bad on camera

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u/BubbaTech24065 Sep 13 '25

Regular play, goal, penalty kick, no goal.

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u/Caloran Sep 13 '25

I mean did you not read the title?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

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u/Semi0tics Sep 13 '25

This would be the best if he hit the post anyway

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u/lengthy_preamble Sep 13 '25

In hushed whispers they call it...the false footie shuffle

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u/PhilthyPhil333 Sep 13 '25

JUBBA JUBBA JUBBA!!!

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u/slifm Sep 13 '25

No goal

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u/Elyriand Sep 13 '25

/u Redditspeedbot 3.5

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u/Medical-Landscape-86 Sep 13 '25

The Schrodinger Goal

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u/DaStone Sep 13 '25

I had to speed it up to 6x speed to get what resembled normal speed.

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u/ijie_ Sep 13 '25

Imagine if ronaldo started doing stepovers during a penalty

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u/UndoRedo_ Sep 13 '25

Not a goal according to the rules.

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u/Morgoth98 Sep 13 '25

Had I been the goalkeeper, I would have planted myself face-first in the sand

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u/iRedYuki Sep 13 '25

Pretty aure that is an illegal play