German legend Franz Beckenbauer is aiming to change the offside rule to make it simpler for referees to interpret.  Yep, he got that right.  Likely to be the most confusing and often most frustrating rule for coaches and players to understand.  Countless hours trying to explain the rule to a child of 12+ and better still the soccer mom, frustrating. 

Take yourself back almost 150 years and you would witness the birth of the offside ruling.  Though seeing a number of changes over the formation of the rules of the game in the 19^th Century it still leaves many soccer coaches, players and parents confused and bewildered many years later.

Offside Explained

“A player is in an offside position if three conditions are met: first, the player must be on the opposing team’s half of the field. Second, the player must be in front of the ball. And third, there must be fewer than two opposing players between him and the opposing goal line, with the goalkeeper counting as an opposing player for these purposes. It is not necessary that the goalkeeper be one of the last two opponents”.   

Ah give me strength what does all that mean?  Never mind, watch this short video to find out exactly what Offside is. 

An excellent job, but still requires over 7 minutes of your life.

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From time to time when we talk to new customers and partners, we are often asked ‘so who uses yur product?’ or ‘where are your customers at?’.   When we were asked this last week by a new user in the mid west of the USA we decided to actually take a few minutes to list it out.  Well we all know that soccer is the truly global game, and the internet has no bounds so it really be no surprise (but it was..) to see that we have customers in the following countries: USA, UK, Ireland, Canada, Turkey, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, India, Italy, South Africa, Malta, Cyprus, New Zealand, Malta, Australia and Malaysia.  

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We have users who are high school teachers, semi-pro coaches, professional analysts, parents, even international scouts using our product.  What amazes us and equally motivates us a company is the enthusiasm of the soccer coach – wherever they are, or whatever age group or level they are coaching and we try to plough that right back into our products.

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