Sliding tackle

A sliding tackle or slide tackle is a skill in football in which a player attempts to take the ball away from an opposing player by deliberately leaving his or her feet and sliding along the ground with one leg extended to push the ball away from the opposing player. Sliding tackles can often be sources of controversy, particularly when players being tackled fall down over the tackler's foot (or the ball stopped by the tackler's foot), and penalties, free kicks and cards are assessed (or are conspicuous by their absence).
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