Summary: There is no such foul in the Laws of the Game. What Soccer Referees are saying? This material is quoted from http://www.askasoccerreferee.com/?p=149 There is nothing illegal, by itself, about playing the ball while on the ground. It becomes the technical foul known as playing dangerously (“dangerous play”) only if the action unfairly takes away an opponent’s otherwise legal play of the ball (for players at the youth level, this definition is simplified even more as “playing in a manner considered to be dangerous to an opponent”). At minimum, this means that an opponent must be within the area of danger which the player has created. If this is not the case…