corner kick
noun
: a free kick from a corner of a soccer field awarded to an attacker when a defender plays the ball out-of-bounds over the end line
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In the 36th minute, Ally Watt doubled the lead with a glancing near-post header from Marta’s corner kick.
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Theo Lloyd-Hughes, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
After the Spartans tied the match a little later, Menlo’s leading scorer Roya Rezaee headed in a corner kick from Krista Arreola to break the 1-1 deadlock.
—Mike Lefkow, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2025
Velazco almost did the same for Granada Hills’ first goal, hitting the post from her corner kick in the 18th minute, allowing teammate Haley Mallas to shuffle the ball into the net for a 1-0 lead.
—Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
The linesman initially called the sequence off, spotting an offside Juventus teammate on the initial corner kick, but VAR intervened and left the center official to deem that Kelly did not influence the play in any phase.
—Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
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Theo Lloyd-Hughes, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
After the Spartans tied the match a little later, Menlo’s leading scorer Roya Rezaee headed in a corner kick from Krista Arreola to break the 1-1 deadlock.
—Mike Lefkow, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2025
Velazco almost did the same for Granada Hills’ first goal, hitting the post from her corner kick in the 18th minute, allowing teammate Haley Mallas to shuffle the ball into the net for a 1-0 lead.
—Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
The linesman initially called the sequence off, spotting an offside Juventus teammate on the initial corner kick, but VAR intervened and left the center official to deem that Kelly did not influence the play in any phase.
—Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Corner kick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corner%20kick. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.
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