# Why Is Soccer's Offside Rule So Hard to Understand

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2068784871900684415
- Source account: [@quem](https://x.com/quem)
- Source language: Portuguese
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:20
- Published: 2026-06-22
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/GZ7eU9lOauv9/en/why-is-soccer-s-offside-rule-so-hard-to-understand
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/GZ7eU9lOauv9/pt/por-que-%C3%A9-t%C3%A3o-dif%C3%ADcil-entender-o-impedimento-no-futebol.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/GZ7eU9lOauv9/en/why-is-soccer-s-offside-rule-so-hard-to-understand) Oh, ask me anything except offside, because I'll never be able to explain it. It doesn't make sense to me.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/GZ7eU9lOauv9/en/why-is-soccer-s-offside-rule-so-hard-to-understand?t=5) So you can't be offside every time. It's just if the other team is ahead of the line of I don't know who, of the…

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/GZ7eU9lOauv9/en/why-is-soccer-s-offside-rule-so-hard-to-understand?t=11) the defense… Then it'll never be a goal.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/GZ7eU9lOauv9/en/why-is-soccer-s-offside-rule-so-hard-to-understand?t=13) To me, that makes no sense at all. - At some point, someone was offside.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/GZ7eU9lOauv9/en/why-is-soccer-s-offside-rule-so-hard-to-understand?t=16) - I'll never understand.