Deliberate tricks

[Alex_C]

In Law 12 under Indirect Freekicks, it’s stated that an indirect free kick is awarded if a player “initiates a deliberate trick for the ball to be passed (including from a free kick or goal kick) to the goalkeeper with the head, chest, knee etc. to circumvent the Law, whether or not the goalkeeper touches the ball with the hands; the goalkeeper is penalised if responsible for initiating the deliberate trick”.

Does this mean the player who does a “trick” concedes a free kick regardless of whether or not the keeper touches the ball after it? But if the goalkeeper was encouraging it, the goalkeeper is effectively conceding this free kick, rather than the outfield player?

 

[one]

Firstly, the trick has to be with the intent to circumvent the law to pas the ball to the keeper.

Yes the keeper doesn't need to touch it for it to be a free kick. The way the law is written, I interpret it as the keeper encouraging it (or asking for it) is not an offence. The player who physically does the trick commits the offence.

To clarify what the word "initiates" means, if one player lifts the ball to a team mate who then heads the ball to the keeper, the player who lifts the ball is the offender.

 

[Alex_C]

Thanks for your message. If the gk asking for it isn’t an offence, then what do they mean by “the goalkeeper is penalised if responsible for initiating the deliberate trick”?

 

[one]

Thanks for your message. If the gk asking for it isn’t an offence, then what do they mean by “the goalkeeper is penalised if responsible for initiating the deliberate trick”?

Keeper kicks the ball lifting it to a team mate and the team mate heads it back to the keeper.

This was happening in goal kicks after a change in law meant the ball was in play immediately after the keeper kicked it. And this bit of law was specifically added to cover it.

 

[JamesL]

Thanks for your message. If the gk asking for it isn’t an offence, then what do they mean by “the goalkeeper is penalised if responsible for initiating the deliberate trick”?

This is, I think, in response to a tactic that started shortly after the requirement for the ball to leave the PA to be in play at a goal kick, whereby keepers would lift the ball to a defender who would head it back to the keeper who would pick it up.
But there are also circumstances where the keeper is the one that initiated the trick in open play to allow a team mate to play it back in a manner that is designed to circumvent the laws.

 

[Alex_C]

Ok, so basically, if any player does/helps opponents do a “trick” to circumvent the pass back law or other similar laws, regardless of if they are the gk or not and whether the gk makes contact or not, an indirect free kick is awarded?