What are the penalties and the consequences in the game when a football player during the action breaks the handball rule in soccer, explained. Grew up in ex-Yugoslavia and developed early a love ...

It is well established that using your arms or hands in the game of football is not allowed. Yet the handball rule in football has been frustrating and difficult for players, coaches, fans, and ...

Soccer’s handball rule is broken. It’s worse than ever before. The evidence keeps on mounting, especially in the English Premier League. On Saturday, there was Crystal Palace-Everton.

The Premier League has fallen in line with the rest of European soccer this season and applied ... after his team lost 2-1 by conceding a handball penalty for the winning goal.

This variant of soccer is the simplest and most playful version of what a real game is, the perfect synonym for fun. Handball with anaco was created by a group of entrepreneurial women from Turucu ...

ESPN has spoken to the head of referees in Germany plus high-profile ex-referees from each of Europe's top leagues, which have seen a plague of controversial handball penalties in recent seasons.

Thursday, early games will continue, with matches in handball, archery, rugby and soccer, with the first game of the day -- Slovenia vs. Denmark in women's handball -- already underway.

Here's why things could have played out differently for the U.S. men's national and the future of American soccer.

The second effort, with minutes remaining, was disallowed after the referee was sent to the touchline screen to judge a handball from Lois Openda in the build-up to the goal. The Belgian ...