On Throw-Ins
Contributed by freelance writer Zifu
Guys
just some basic rules and tips on throw-ins.
Rules
1) Both feet must be on the ground when the ball leaves your hands.
Doen’t have to be in line, can have one behind the other but MUST be
on the ground.
2) Position of the hands(with ball) should start behind the head.
3) At the point of releasing the ball, hands must fall below the eye
level.
4) Ball shold be released with one swift motion by swinging the arms
from behind the head and releasing the ball at 45 degrees (optimal)
from your forehead. Do NOT throw the ball by flicking your wrists. It
is also considered a foul throw. Just lock your wrists.(This actually
helps to generate power in your throw)
Tips
1) Try to throw down the line (towards the opposition goal) or within
a 90 degrees arc (from sideline to a line perpendicular to the
sideline). This adds pressure to teh opponent. Throwing back towards
our goal is highly unadvisable unless there is absolutely no opponent
and the receiving player has a good touch. If not, might result in
opponents stealling the ball and counter-attacking.
2) We are not professionals like Gary Neville. Receiving Players must
either run into space to receive the ball, have excellent technique
to control the ball with the marker behind you, flick the ball on,
return the ball to the thrower or act as a decoy. Many possible
variations. Let’s practise on this.
3) There is no offsides in throw-ins!!! Capitalise on this.
This is all I have to contribute for now. You can check out the
official FIFA ruling on this but its its gonna be hard to make sense
of the technical mumbo jumbo.
Let’s make sure we do not make any more unavoidable mistakes (not
juzt throw-ins) in the next match.
Zifu
