This was harder to articulate than I thought it would be😂
So usually, if someone passes the ball to someone that’s behind enemy defense players, it’s an offside. Let’s say Messi is lurking a couple of feet behind the most defensive opposing player. If someone else passes the ball to him, he can’t catch the ball because he was offside when the pass was done. He’d have to be right beside the defensive player or in front of him at the time of the pass to be onside. Does that make any sense to you?
That does, thank you! That’s a good explanation. Because offsides means something totally different in American football.
I’m not too familiar with American football, how does offsides work there?
It’s basically to prevent “goal hanging” (players hanging around the opposition’s goalkeeper). It’s quite a simple rule. What makes it contentious is being able to tell if the player receiving the ball was behind all of the opposition’s defence players at the exact time the ball was kicked to them. Hence the introduction of VAR to digitally do what the official linesmen do (those officials running up and down the side of the pitch).
Other main rules include “fouls” I.e. impeding another player - the severity of which leads to either a yellow card (a warning, but get two of those during a match and you’re off the pitch) or a red card (bad or dangerous foul) and you’re instantly sent off. Fouls committed in the penalty box area lead to a penalty.
You also can’t handle the ball hence it’s called football 😁
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