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A player who has lost his shoe scores a goal with the respective foot - did you ever experience anything like that in your games? And what is the correct decision? Loading...
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“You show your real qualities when the coach is not watching”, says Bjorn Kuipers. It’s easy to put some extra effort in the training sessions when your coach is near the sidelines, but that is not enough. It’s actually the easiest thing to show-off. His impression is good. You run. Train hard. Impress him. Your […]
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2016 is widely lying behind us - a year which brought immense changes in terms of refereeing. After the hugest revision of the Laws of the Game ever as well as the introduction of Video Assistant Refereeing, it will be interesting to see what trends will dominate 2017 with regard to officiating. A prediction of emerging trends, microtrends, macrotrends and megatrends. Past year's trend: Laws
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Although these situations occur at times, they still do so too rarely: In a German amateur league, a player, who was allegedly tackled inside the penalty area making the referee award him a penalty kick, apparently knew the referee had been wrong and therefore gave up the penalty kick as he was not touched by his opponent. The following clip shows the incident: Of course, this is a
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The first ever Gibraltar FIFA referees are given their international badge. A unique moment for the small European country. Referee boss Adrian Bacarisa can be proud, because his goal was to get the first international refs by the end of 2016. I got the chance to interview the three new referees. Congratulations to: Jason Barcelo […]
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Here are some Premier League Referee Books you need for Christmas. My referee blog gives lots of insights and information, but there’s more detailed info in books from top level referees. If you’re looking for something under your Christmas three, below you’ll find some interesting Premier League Referee Books. The affiliate links below will refer you […]
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English Elite Referee Mark Clattenburg has been elected as The3rdTeam's European Referee of the Year 2016 followed by Polish risen star Szymon Marciniak and Slovenia's Damir Skomina on places 2 and 3. The 41-year old official from Newcastle upon Tyne has officiated two major finals this year: The Champions League final between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid in Milan and the final of UEFA
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Janny Sikazwe has been appointed to handle the final match of the 2016 FIFA Club World Cup, between Real Madrid and Kashima Antlers, to be played on 18 December 2016 in Yokohama. Sikazwe, a FIFA referee since 2007, will be assisted by Marwa Range from Kenya and Jerson Dos Santos from Angola. Hungarian Viktor Kassai will serve as fourth official. The appointment of a CAF trio for a final in
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Week 16 of the Laws of the Game Quiz is all about throw-ins. Do you know what is allowed and how you need to handle when is scored from a throw-in? It sounds easy, but are you familiar with the rules about this subject? Give it a try. Bezig met laden… Terms and conditions Please […]
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In today's FIFA Club World Cup Semifinal between America and Real Madrid, Video Assistant Refereeing was again deployed following yesterday's penalty award by Viktor Kassai. Paraguayan Enrique Cacéres was involved as the main referee with in the following situation. (Admittedly Leading) Questions: 1) Did the Video Assistant Refereeing input make anything clearer on the field of play? 2
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“Don’t judge your AR’s on first impression”, says Bjorn Kuipers. Recently he talked about trust your team members. This post is based on the same idea and will show some different aspects. Bjorn Kuipers works with Sander van Roekel as permanent team member since 2008. But the team was not formed immediately. The first time […]
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History has been made: Viktor Kassai has awarded the first penalty kick ever using Video Assistant Refereeing in an international match. Following the advice of his Video Assistant Referees (VAR), the Hungarian Elite official checked video replays close to the sideline and pointed to the spot in the Club World Cup game between Atlético Nacional and Kashima Antlers. During a high free-kick
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Half a year after the revision of the Laws of the Game, UEFA and the IFAB are considering some subsequent adaptions to the topic DOGSO / SPA. In future, stopping a promising attack inside the penalty area with the possibility and clear intention to play the ball will not be penalized with a yellow card anymore. UEFA's Referee Committee teach their referees to refrain from issuing yellow cards
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Door 12 focuses on some cases where promising attacks have been stopped (SPA = stopping a promising attack) or even obvious goal-scoring opportunities have been denied (DOGSO = denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity). Keeping the Laws of the Game changes in mind, what disciplinary sanctions would you issue? Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3 Your Decisions? Loading...
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Interfering with play when you’re in offside position. A new case study for you to learn from. Recently I asked on Twitter what kind of stories you want to read on this blog and most of you responded with: case studies. What stories do you like the most on a refereeing blog? — Jan ter […]
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Please find the current list of prospective match officials pre-selected by FIFA to take charge of games at World Cup 2018 in Russia. Assistant referees are included. Among others, Italy's World Cup 2014 Final Referee Nicola Rizzoli has been removed from the list - as far as we have heard, there has been some form of opposition inside FIFA against a World Cup referee who would be 47 years old in
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Door 10: Please find the official documents comprising the UEFA Referee Categories for men, women and futsal officials below. Additionally, we have created unofficial subcategories for the men's Elite, First and Second Group. Our unofficial subcategories might be useful to classify match officials in a finer way than the UEFA Categories do it and might help to early identify talents and high
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Door 9 contains another video example that illustrates the need to always expect the unexpected as a referee on the one hand and which curious and slapstick-like situations might happen even in your games! One of those situations happened in the Turkish 1st league some seasons ago: How would you decide in a) this concrete situation and b) if this specific type of offence was not made
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Week 15’s Laws of the Game Quiz is here for you. But first I’d like to mention a discussion I had about the restart of play in Week 14’s question 5. The Dutch FA (KNVB) says this is an indirect free kick. I used one of their questions for professional referees. The LOTG do actually not […]
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