Professional foul Professional foul In various sports, a professional foul is a deliberate act of foul play intended to bring about an advantage for the perpetrator's team. Professional fouls are usually committed to prevent an opponent from scoring. In association football, a professional foul involves a defender fouling an attacking player in order to prevent them from scoring, or a handball offence that denied an obvious goal-scoring opportunity. The resulting free kick or penalty may offer the attacking team a lower chance of scoring than the original playing position, and the defending player therefore has an incentive to tactically foul the attacking
Strategic move observable to the other players. Strategic moves are not "warnings" or "assurances." Warnings and assurances are merely statements of a player's interest, rather than an actual "commitment" from the player. The term was coined by Thomas Schelling in his 1960 book, "The Strategy of Conflict", and has gained wide currency in political science and industrial organization. Strategic move A strategic move in game theory is an action taken by a player outside the defined actions of the game in order to gain a strategic advantage and increase one's payoff. Strategic moves can either be "unconditional moves" or "response rules". The