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  2. Penalty area - Wikipedia

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    Within the penalty area is another smaller rectangular area called the goal area (colloquially the "six-yard box"), which is delimited by two lines starting on the goal-line 6 yd (5.5 m) from the goalposts and extending 6 yd (5.5 m) into the pitch from the goal-line, and the line joining these. Goal kicks and any free kick by the defending team ...

  3. Penalty kick (association football) - Wikipedia

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    Josef Martínez of Atlanta United FC taking a penalty kick versus the New England Revolution. A penalty kick (commonly known as a penalty or a spot kick) is a method of restarting play in association football, in which a player is allowed to take a single shot at the goal while it is defended only by the opposing team's goalkeeper.

  4. Glossary of association football terms - Wikipedia

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    A player doing a keepie-uppie Association football (more commonly known as football or soccer) was first codified in 1863 in England, although games that involved the kicking of a ball were evident considerably earlier. A large number of football-related terms have since emerged to describe various aspects of the sport and its culture. The evolution of the sport has been mirrored by changes in ...

  5. Kick-off (association football) - Wikipedia

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    The oldest published laws of football (Rugby School, 1845) specify that the game is to be started with a "kick off" from the middle of the field of play, which must be a place-kick. [9] Most codes of laws from this era provide for a similar "kick off" from the centre of the ground; these include the Cambridge rules of 1856, [ 10 ] the Sheffield ...

  6. Place kick - Wikipedia

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    The place kick is a type of kicking play commonly used in American football, association football (soccer), Canadian football, rugby league, and rugby union. It was historically used in Australian rules football , but it was phased out of the game more than 100 years ago.

  7. Why Do We Americans Call It Soccer? - AOL

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    In 1848, students at Cambridge University wrote the first set of rules for the game we know today — a game in which a player used their foot to kick a ball — hence "foot-ball." In 1863 The ...

  8. Soccer kick - Wikipedia

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    Renzo Gracie soccer kicks Eugenio Tadeu at a Vale Tudo bout in 1997. A soccer kick, also known as a soccer ball kick or PK (penalty kick) in puroresu and shoot fighting, and as tiro de meta in vale tudo, is a reference to a kick that is similar to kicks used in association football.

  9. What is a fair-catch kick? Chargers' Cameron Dicker converts ...

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    The NFL only considers kickoffs, safety kicks or onside kicks to be free kicks and specifically states that a fair-catch kick "is not a free kick." There's also this from Rule 10, Section 2 ...