Laws of the Game test - questions of week 1 by Dutch Referee Blog

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1. A defender starts holding the shirt of an attacker outside the penalty area and continues inside the penalty area. The referee must award a(n) *

Indirect free kick where holding started

Indirect free kick where the holding stopped

Direct free kick where the holding started

Penalty kick (because the holding stopped in the penalty area)

2. The colour of artificial turf pitches ... *

May be all colours

May be all colours, but lines must be white

Must be green

May be green and blue

3. A penalty kick is awarded and a team-mate of the identified kicker takes the kick and scores. What does the referee decide? He ... *

Cautions the player who takes the kick and orders a retake

Cautions the player who takes the kick and restarts with an indirect free kick

Cautions the player who was identified as taker and restarts with an indirect free kick

Awards the goal

4. A referee awards a goal in the last seconds of the first half. He whistles for half-time immediately after that. In the dressing room his assistant tells him the attacker who scored controlled the ball with his hand (deliberate handball). How does the referee need to deal with the advice his assistant referee just gave him? *

He has to cancel the goal

He has to cancel the goal and caution the goal-scorer

He allows the goal, because he has signalled for half-time and has left the field after he got the advice

He allows the goal, but is still allowed to caution the goal-scorer

5. How many players may contest a dropped ball? *

One player from each team

Two players from each team

Any number of players as long as goalkeepers don't contest the dropped ball

Any number of players

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