The IFAB's explanation of the offside rule

The final of the past edition of the UEFA Nations League in which the selection of France won to Spain was in the middle of the controversy by a played in particular: the goal of Kylian Mbappé that them dió the title to 'Them Bleus'. In front of the distinct interpretations that have done on this incidence of the party, the International Football Association Board has pronounced .

Although they were many the voices that warned that the played had to be sanctioned, the body commissioned to define the rules of the football has cleared in which circumstances the referee can signal the offside, marking the difference between an offside voluntary and a diverted product of the played, what would have occurred in which they starred Mbappé and Eric García.

The IFAB has indicated which would be the conditions, clearing that everything will depend on the advantage that can take out the attacker of the action: "Only it will sanction to a player in position of offside in the moment in that the balloon touches or is played by a mate of team if it participates in the game of active form of one of the following ways: taking out advantage of said position when playing the balloon or interfere in the game of an opponent when the balloon: it have been diverted or have rebounded in a stick, in the crossbar, in a member of the referee's team or in an opponent".

When it exists or no an offside voluntary, according to the IFAB?

From the organism have explained in what consists the voluntariedad in the played that would carry to his designation as offside, depending on the back actions to her: "Play the balloon voluntarily involves that the player has the capacity to control it and: happen it to a mate, conquer the possession or clear with the foot or the head (...). The fact that the pass, the attempt to recover the possession or the clear of the player was imprecise or do not attain his aim does not invalidate the voluntariedad of the action".

Likewise, they have explained when the referee could interpret that there is not illicit position: "it will consider that a player in position of offside has not taken out advantage of said position when it receive the balloon of an opponent that plays voluntarily the balloon, included the voluntary hand, unless it treat of a 'saved' by part of an opponent".