Free kick Introduction

A free kick is used to restart play in several codes of football:

Association football

• Direct free kick, from which one may score directly
• Indirect free kick, from which one may not score directly

American football;

• Safety kick
• Fair catch kick, a little-known, rarely used rule in some forms of American football that allows a team, after making a fair catch of an opponent's kick, to attempt a field goal freely from the spot of the catch

Other forms of football

• Free kick (rugby union), usually awarded to a team for a technical offence committed by the opposing side
• Free kick (Australian rules football), a penalty awarded by a field umpire to a player

Article sources : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_free_kick