The Laws of Soccer 101: Offsides

The 11th Law of the Game deals with the "offside position", which is nowhere nearly as dirty as it sounds when it is put it in quotation marks like that. Offsides is a hotly debated rule of soccer, and one many lovers of the attack typically detest.

Now, being in an "offside position" (which occurs when a player is nearer to his opponent's goal line than both the ball and the second to last opponent) is not technicall illegal per se.

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