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Question: "For indoor hockey qualifiers for the National Indoor Tournament, how many stay back for a penalty corner? Is it the goalie and only three other defenders or are all allowed back?"
Answer: When this question was first answered in January of 2009, ALL players on the defending team had to be behind the end-line and the goalkeeper had to be behind the goal-line. Further, no other player besides the goalkeeper was allowed to be behind the goal-line.
Now, however, that has changed. Any number of defenders can, instead of defending the penalty corner from behind the end-line, defend the penalty corner from behind the end-line OR the other side of the center-line.
Unchanged is that the defending players who are outside the goal cage have to be on the opposite side of the goal cage as the attacker beginning the penalty corner.
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The exact positions that the defenders taking up positions behind the end-line in preparation for the insertion is a coaching decision. |
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Only the goalkeeper is allowed behind the goal-line and, in fact, the goalkeeper MUST be behind the goal-line unless, for some crazy reason, the goalkeeper would rather defend from the other half of the pitch. |
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