Game this Saturday (10/29/2016) at 10:00 AM.

[WCSoccerSaturday]

Another excerpt from the Procedures and Rules page:

SPECIAL RULES

Without a referee, almost any infraction would lead to a disagreement, so we rarely call any. This doesn't mean you can flagrantly violate rules, it means you have to be a better, friendlier, more sportsman-like player. 

        To keep the play going, and the game safe, we do have a couple of special rules that are worth mentioning:

1. No hard shots. Just take it easy! We're here to have fun, not to win at any cost. Hard shots have injured players in the past (usually by hitting them in the face). If somebody does take a hard shot, other players should yell out "take it easy" or some other appropriate admonishment. The metric is not whether you can kick harder or not, not whether you gave it all you could, it's whether it will hurt someone on the receiving end of the shot.
   
2. No offsides. You can stand behind the goalkeeper if that suits you.
   
3. No throw ins. If there's a stoppage for any reason, the game restarts with a free indirect kick.
   
4. No out of bounds. Play it off the wall or the net. If the ball goes through the side net, the other team plays it off the ground from the place it went out.
   
5. No Hands calls. We don't call hands unless it's obviously and egregiously intentional. Please Please Please DON'T call "HANDS!" Just continue playing. However, in fairness, the player that used their hands should take themself out of the play for a few seconds.
   
6. No penalty shots. If a defending player uses hands, inside the penalty box, in an obviously intentional manner and by doing so stops a shot that would have gone in (close call goes to the kicker), it's a goal. If it wouldn't have gone in, just play it (rule #5).
   
7. No long shots. A long shot is usually a hard shot (rule #1). If a ball kicked from outside the defenders zone line (the defenders 1/3 of the field) goes in, it's no goal. The defending team plays it as a goal kick. It doesn't matter if the shot bounces off the goaltender or an opposing player. The ball has to be actively played by someone other than the goaltender (either team) inside the zone. The goaltender is going to, instinctively, play the ball - a bounce off the goaltender... even a missed catch - doesn't make a long shot count. The intent is to stop long hard shots. If you shoot a long ball, you don't get the goal. Long headers are not a danger to others, so a header from outside that goes in counts as a goal. And, no, we're not going to argue about a soft kick from outside that rolls slowly into the goal. Any kick from outside is no-goal.
   
8. No back passes. If a player kicks a ball back to their own goalkeeper, the goalkeeper should not use hands (head or body passes are OK).
   

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    Game time Saturday is at 10:00 AM. Do not be late! Show up ten minutes early so you are ready to play at game time!

    Guests: Please do not make guest list requests before Wednesday! All guest requests received on Wednesday will go into a lottery for the top positions on the guest/waiting list. Requests received before or after Wednesday get the next available slots.

    If you need to contact me on a game day, or the night before call me on my cell phone/voice mail (650.740.8096) or at home (650.366.3537 - please, not before 8:00 AM). If you have a slot and can't make it, YOU MUST CONTACT ME!! To avoid spamming you, I don't send updates to regulars or confirmed guests. There may be players waiting on your slot. So CALL me! Speak to me. Just sending an email is not good enough, you have to be sure that I know you have cancelled either by speaking to me, or getting a returned text. If all you do is send an email on Friday evening or Saturday morning, you are considered a no-show. 

       A full schedule is here:
        https://sites.google.com/site/WCSoccerSaturday/team-schedules


       For directions, map, rules/procedures and more check out:
        http://WCSoccerSaturday.soccer