when I was in high school (wearing leather helmet) for a kick off, our kicker would slip and land flat on his back. Another player would turn and kick the ball for an on-side kick. A trick play is nothing but a clever misdirection that may or may not work. They go on all the time in virtually all sports. Anytime you have player-on-player interaction there will be misdirection.
shagapow - 13 years ago
love it i am a u10 girls coach cant wait to try this play. this teaches you that you need to keep track of the ball at all times.
adrian necsuleu - 13 years ago
The issue here is bad defense. Two major mistakes. One : the player who score lost behind his defender. Second: Central Defender the one without any pair should have move in front of the goalie before the release of the ball
David B McNeill - 13 years ago
The "blue" scored because the "white" goalie missed missed an easy save not because of a trick play. "White" needs a new goalie. Did the ball go through his legs?
Kelly - 13 years ago
It's absolutely legal, but not for the reason stated. The two players that colided didn't feign injury, they both got up right away. That makes it no different than any other colision on the field. In addition, had the goalie paid attention to the ball and not the players, as he should have, he had ample time to make adjustments and stop the goal. Also where was the player who was supposed to be guarding the one who kicked the goal. Shouldn't he have positioned himself between the player and the goal. It's called defense. Try it it works! I did not see anything questionable or illigitimate about the play. On the contrary, I thought it was an ingenious misdirection play, and well executed! The point of sports is to teach life lessons about winning and loosing. "Trick plays" have been an arrow in the quiver of tactical sports for as long as I can remember. The best defense against them is to have a well prepared and well executed defensive strategy. Incidently, I had to watch it twice to see what the players who colided did, because I was following the ball. Where you too?
That's awesome! While the other team is laughing, they were scoring. Genius. I'm proud to have graduated from Bryant, AR! haha. So funny to see something like this make national news. We were doing trick plays 10+ years ago! Everyone was! But that was before the days of YouTube.
cica - 13 years ago
This is what we are teaching our young people and then we wonder how our country ended up like it is. Virtue?
when I was in high school (wearing leather helmet) for a kick off, our kicker would slip and land flat on his back. Another player would turn and kick the ball for an on-side kick. A trick play is nothing but a clever misdirection that may or may not work. They go on all the time in virtually all sports. Anytime you have player-on-player interaction there will be misdirection.
love it i am a u10 girls coach cant wait to try this play. this teaches you that you need to keep track of the ball at all times.
The issue here is bad defense. Two major mistakes. One : the player who score lost behind his defender. Second: Central Defender the one without any pair should have move in front of the goalie before the release of the ball
The "blue" scored because the "white" goalie missed missed an easy save not because of a trick play. "White" needs a new goalie. Did the ball go through his legs?
It's absolutely legal, but not for the reason stated. The two players that colided didn't feign injury, they both got up right away. That makes it no different than any other colision on the field. In addition, had the goalie paid attention to the ball and not the players, as he should have, he had ample time to make adjustments and stop the goal. Also where was the player who was supposed to be guarding the one who kicked the goal. Shouldn't he have positioned himself between the player and the goal. It's called defense. Try it it works! I did not see anything questionable or illigitimate about the play. On the contrary, I thought it was an ingenious misdirection play, and well executed! The point of sports is to teach life lessons about winning and loosing. "Trick plays" have been an arrow in the quiver of tactical sports for as long as I can remember. The best defense against them is to have a well prepared and well executed defensive strategy. Incidently, I had to watch it twice to see what the players who colided did, because I was following the ball. Where you too?
That's awesome! While the other team is laughing, they were scoring. Genius. I'm proud to have graduated from Bryant, AR! haha. So funny to see something like this make national news. We were doing trick plays 10+ years ago! Everyone was! But that was before the days of YouTube.
This is what we are teaching our young people and then we wonder how our country ended up like it is. Virtue?