Soccer Experts Only! Soccer rules question

Playing FIFA 99 for Playstation the other night, a really weird play came up.

Somehow the ball was knocked past my opponents goal line by either my team or the defending team, I didn’t catch which.

Normally, if it were my team, the opposing goalie of course would take a free kick. If the defendaer knocked it there, it would be a corner kick for the my team. But here is what happened.

MY goalie ran all the way down to the other end of the field and did a throw in from behind the opponent’s goal line, then ran back to defend my teams net!

Can this happen in real soccer and why? Or is my game messed up? I’ve played the game over 60 times, and this is the only time this happened. And I’ve never seen such a play in a real soccer game.

The closest thing I can think of is in hockey when there is a delayed penalty on the other team, you pull your goaltender since play stops when the offending team gets the puck. I also remember in Indoor Soccer there is a “Sixth Defender” who is not the goaltender but must wear the goaltenders jersey for some reason.

Is there a similar play in soccer?

There are no provisions for throw-ins from behind the goal line under FIFA rules. I think the game had a hiccup.

Throw-ins come from behind the touch lines (sidelines).

Check out Laws 9, 15, 16, and 17 in the official laws of FIFA at http://www.fifa.com

To the best of my knowledge, there is no such play in soccer. You can check here: FIFA: Laws of the Game

I read the rules about throw-ins and corner kicks at the FIFA site and didn’t see anything describing the play you mentioned.
(sorry, had to fix my own link. :()

[Edited by Arnold Winkelried on 10-10-2000 at 01:22 PM]

And Bobt beat me to it anyway.

It would be unwise for a goalkeeper to run the length of the field, although I’ve seen some who take penalty kicks.

You never throw the ball in from behind the goal-line.

I call it a goal kick when the goalie restarts play.

Mind you, I call it football :wink:

Some goalies do like to stray away from their goal. Jorge Campos likes to take penalties.
Prud’homme tried to act as an 11th attacker in a WC 1994 qualifier against Germany.

Rene Higuita of Colombia wandered out of his net in an overtime match against Cameroon in the 1990 WC and he got burned by Roger Milla.

Empty net goals in soccer/football are rather dispiriting.

I bet you it’s something the programmers threw in for fun. There is no such play. And that’s a definitive answer.