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Soccer Rules and Regulations
Spotsylvania Rookie soccer plays by most of the FIFA rules. FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) is the governing body for soccer in the United States of America and much of the world.

Rules and Regulations:
The official FIFA rules are on-line at http://www.fifa2.com/scripts/runisa.dll?S7:gp:522520:67173+refs/laws+E

Spotsylvania Parks and Recs follow those rules with only minor changes to the following:

Law 1: Center field flags are not used.
Law 2: Due to age, the Cougars will use a size 3 ball in games.
Law 3: Due to age Substitution Procedures are not strictly followed.
Law 4: No changes
Law 5: No changes
Law 6: Only one assistant Referee is used (due to the limited number of referees available).
Law 7: Due to age, 4 10 minutes quarters are played.
Law 8: No changes
Law 9: No changes
Law 10: No changes
Law 11: No changes, Off-Sides is rarely called at this age group.
Law 12: Yellow and Red cards are not used at this age group. Though rare, a child can be removed from the game.
Law 13: No changes
Law 14: No changes
Law 15: No changes
Law 16:: No changes
Law 17: No changes

A more condensed version of the rules http://www.mlsnet.com/about/rules.html

Other great soccer links
http://www.usysa.org/
http://www.us-soccer.com/
http://www.eteamz.com/soccer/
http://fox.nstn.ca/~harvey/whusa/drillstext.html
http://fundamentalsoccer.com/
http://www.decatursports.com/soccer.htm
http://www.planet-soccer.com/
 

Contact Spotsylvania Parks and Recs and tell them that they should have a site like this one in Stafford:
http://www.all-soccer.com/leagues/us/va/stafford/srsl/

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