These are the officials appointed for MD2 at AFCON 2017. Among others, Bernard Camille from Seychelles will control the tie between Algeria and Tunisia, while Zambia's Janny Sikazwe will officiate his second game in the tournament. Missing assignments will be added in due course. M9, Group A18/01/2017, 17:00 CET, LibrevilleGabon - Burkina FasoReferee: GASSAMA Bakary Papa (Gambia)Assistant
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The following match officials have been selected to take control over the matches played in Europe's top leagues in Matchweek 3. Feel free to ... - ... share appointments with us (writing them as a comment in the manner below) - ... share appointments from your national leagues other than those listed below with us, specially if you consider the game as significant (e.g. a derby, a top clash or
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Imagine the following match situation: A defending player is having control of the ball but gets under pressure by an attacking player who is challenging him for the ball. In order to not lose the ball in a dangerous position close to the sideline, the defending player chooses the safe option and plays the ball back to his own goalkeeper ('deliberate return pass'). However, he thereby catches the
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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has defined the first eight officiating teams who will oversee the first group stage matchday of this year's Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) kicked off in Gabon's Libreville tomorrow evening. Olympic Games 2016 referee Ghead Grisha of Egypt has been chosen to take charge of the opening game between Gabon and Guinea-Bissau, with Sidi Alioum from Cameroon
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Referees Mehdi Abid Charef Joshua Bondo Néant Alioum Denis Dembele Gehad Grisha Bamlak Tessema Weyesa Eric Otogo-Castane Bakary Gassama Hamada el Moussa Nampiandraza Redouane Jiyed Mahamadou Keita Ali Lemghaifry Daniel Frazer Bennett Malang Diedhiou Bernard Camille Youssef Essrayri Janny Sikazwe Assistant referees Albdelhak Etchiali Jerson Emiliano Dos
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Great to see you’re still taking part of the Laws of the Game Quizzes in 2017. Thanks for participating. In this week’s quiz you will find two difficult questions from a day organised by my referee association last weekend. Q1 and Q 5. Please let me know how you performed on one of the social […]
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So what have I been able to achieve this past year? Personality Now, I don’t mean my personality on the field. I mean my personality off the field. To a surprising extent, I’ve noticed qualities of refereeing that I’ve been working on in the field come to life in my personal life. This was certainly […]
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The following match officials have been selected to take control over the matches played in Europe's top leagues in Matchweek 2. Feel free to ... - ... share appointments with us (writing them as a comment in the manner below) - ... share appointments from your national leagues other than those listed below with us, specially if you consider the game as significant (e.g. a derby, a top clash
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This week’s referee of the week is Harvey Newstead. He’s 15 years old and on the local Centre Of Refereeing Excellence. “The key at this stage of my career is to get as much experience as possible on youth games”, he says in an interview with Dutch Referee Blog. Hi, please introduce yourself. My name is Harvey Newstead, […]
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Effective goal-setting for referees is very important, whatever you have achieved last year. Mark Clattenburg officiated the Euro 2016 and Champions League final, but he will set his goals for 2017 as well. “Last year I set my goals and I over-achieved my goals for sure”, he says. “But this year I’ve set my goals […]
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Happy New Year, dear Laws of the Game Quiz participants. I hope you enjoyed the quizzes so far during the first half of the season. This is the first quiz of 2017. And as a new month starts, you can start fresh to become a monthly winner and get some small goodies from Refsworld UK, […]
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From now on, you can find referee appointments for Europe's major national leagues in a (match)weekly post on this blog. Feel free to ... - ... share appointments with us (writing them as a comment in the manner below) - ... share appointments from your national leagues other than those listed below with us, specially if you consider the game as significant (e.g. a derby, a top clash or a very
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“You need to get uncomfortable as referee if you want to reach a higher level”, says Gerry Duffy. You’ve been thinking about your big picture as referee since the first blog post in this series. But have you thought big enough? This interview with Gerry Duffy will inspire you to think bigger and also shows […]
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Knut Kircher officiated more than 18 years in the German top leagues and was also a FIFA international referee. Due to age restrictions he has to quit in 2016. In this interview with Dutch Referee Blog he looks back on his career with some “special moments”. You had a wonderful career as Bundesliga and Fifa […]
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What is the big picture of your refereeing career? Are you just enjoying your games every weekend or do you want to get more out of it? If you want to achieve your goals as a referee, you need to answer this this question for yourself. At the start of 2017 it’s a good moment […]
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The best read stories on Dutch Referee Blog for 2016. Enjoy them and please let me know on jan@dutchreferee.com what you want to learn next year and I’ll try to write some interesting stories about that topic. In the next few days I’ll come up with a series on goal-setting and giving your referee career […]
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The 18th Laws of the Game Quiz of this football season is the last quiz of 2016. I’ve copied 5 questions that were very difficult for you in the first half of this football season. I hope you know all the answers now. Good luck! Bezig met laden… Terms and conditions Please find the Terms […]
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Seth Kehr is only 14 years old, but has almost three years of experience as a referee. He doesn’t only put refereeing in practice on the pitch, but also tries to improve at home. “When I’m at home I will talk to other referees about their experiences and share my own”, he says in an […]
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The IFFHS have released their annual referee ranking having chosen Mark Clattenburg as The World's Best Referee in 2016, followed by Nicola Rizzoli and Viktor Kassai. "Selected editorial offices and experts", as the IFFHS writes, have made their votes resulting in the following list: 1 – Mark Clattenburg (England) 141 points 2 – Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)
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