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
A Stop in a Desert participation of the author. "A Stop in a Desert" is the first book of poems Brodsky, composed by himself. Brodsky was a collection of the USSR, and the texts of the poems were secretly transferred to the United States. The book was published in 1970 by Chekhov Publishing House. In 1988, the publishing house "Ardis" second edition of the collection has been carried out. A Stop in a Desert A Stop in a Desert () is the second book of poems of Joseph Brodsky and the first composed by the poet himself. It is considered the result of the early