ClioMZ
Researcher
Hello all,
I am new here and would like to exchange ideas with you. I am not a referee myself. But my focus as a football historian is on the evolution of the Laws of the Game. Because I couldn't find a reasonable, comprehensive and critical account of the history, I created it myself over all IFAB protocols and put it online on a blog. As I am from Germany, it is mainly German-language, but most of the articles are also available in English. In this way, I became the world's leading expert on the history and development of the Laws of the Game and on cooperation with the IFAB and also the DFB, for whose referee newspaper I regularly write articles.
My second interest concerns other women in football, especially female referees. Here, too, I have somehow become the world's specialist, because no one else is researching it ... very strange, but I like being a nerd ;-)
So I would be especially happy about the exchange with other non-men who are active in men's football: What is the motivation? How do they empower? What difficulties (beyond the usual problems with abuse and so on, which men also experience) do they know and how can they be helped? For example, through safer spaces or other possibilities.
I also find it interesting because football is normally, you know it, divided into binary groups: there is men's football and women's football.Normally there are no women in men's football .... Women referees are changing that and are getting a lot of support, but also a lot of rejection from the die-hards.
These are the two areas that interest me and that I would like to discuss with you.
Many greetings from Germany,
Clio aka Petra
I am new here and would like to exchange ideas with you. I am not a referee myself. But my focus as a football historian is on the evolution of the Laws of the Game. Because I couldn't find a reasonable, comprehensive and critical account of the history, I created it myself over all IFAB protocols and put it online on a blog. As I am from Germany, it is mainly German-language, but most of the articles are also available in English. In this way, I became the world's leading expert on the history and development of the Laws of the Game and on cooperation with the IFAB and also the DFB, for whose referee newspaper I regularly write articles.
My second interest concerns other women in football, especially female referees. Here, too, I have somehow become the world's specialist, because no one else is researching it ... very strange, but I like being a nerd ;-)
So I would be especially happy about the exchange with other non-men who are active in men's football: What is the motivation? How do they empower? What difficulties (beyond the usual problems with abuse and so on, which men also experience) do they know and how can they be helped? For example, through safer spaces or other possibilities.
I also find it interesting because football is normally, you know it, divided into binary groups: there is men's football and women's football.Normally there are no women in men's football .... Women referees are changing that and are getting a lot of support, but also a lot of rejection from the die-hards.
These are the two areas that interest me and that I would like to discuss with you.
Many greetings from Germany,
Clio aka Petra