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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Surprise surprise: In their today's meeting, UEFA's Referee Committee have decided against changes to the Referee Categories. No changes until June! It seems as if UEFA will only change the categories once a year from now on - in June. > Full List
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Tomorrow, we will very likely get to know the updated UEFA Referee Categories. After analyzing some data, we come to the conclusion that we can expect numerous changes - particularly from Second to First Group. The following diagram illustrates the number of officials in Elite and First Group over the last five couple of years. 2016a means the categories as they were defined in June 2016.
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Deal with troublemakers immediately, says Bjorn Kuipers. During a presentation Kuipers shows a clip of his 2014 Champions League final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. Spanish temper, but as referee you need to deal with that. The clip below starts after Raul Garcia has made tackle and stopped a promising Real attack. You’ll see […]
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Door 6 does not have a visualized match incident, but a Laws of the Game question for you. How would you answer if you were asked this in a test? "You are refereeing an intense derby. Everything has been under your full control so far. Due to some goals and injuries, you award three minutes of additional time. The score is 1:2 for the away team. The home players try everything to score the
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How a referee got nominated as player of the week? Jochem Kamphuis officiated the game between Vitesse and PEC Zwolle in the Eredivisie, the highest football level in The Netherlands. Nathan scored the 3-1. He took off his shirt to show a message in memory of two of his friends from football club Chapecoense who died […]
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Have you seen this week’s penalty kick after nine seconds? The referee news of 5th of December 2016 with the latest stories, interviews, links and more. With a video of that quick penalty kick decision, the latest Champions League appointments and more. The lastes referee appointments Tuesday’s CL games Wednesday’s CL games Thursday’s Europa League […]
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Referee Advent Calendar - Door 5: On next Thursday, UEFA's Referee Committee are going to define the new Referee Categories for the 2nd half of the 2016/17 season. In former times, the category allocation (promotions and demotions) were partly criticized for being politically motivated or at least influenced by the members of the Referee Committee - by us as independent observers, by you as our
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These are the choices made by UEFA Referees Committee for the last matchday of 2016-17 Europa League's group stage. Group L, 8 December 2016, 17:00 CET Estadio El Madrigal, Villarreal (ESP) Villarreal CF - FC Steaua Bucureşti Referee: Manuel Gräfe (GER) Assistant Referee 1: Mike Pickel (GER) Assistant Referee 2: Holger Henschel (GER) Additional Assistant Referee 1: Marco Fritz (GER)
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UEFA has chosen the following officials to take charge of next Wednesday's Champions League matches. Lithuania's Gediminas Mazeika will make his Champions League bow in Leverkusen. Group E, 07 December 2016, 20:45 CET, Leverkusen (GER) Bayer Leverkusen - AS Monaco Referee: Gediminas Mazeika (LTU) Assistant Referee 1: Vytautas Simkus (LTU) Assistant Referee 2: Vytenis Kazlauskas (
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The weekend games once again threw up glaring errors made by our top referees. The second tier of professional referees who operate
The post Hackett’s Verdict: Is decision making at an all time low? appeared first on You Are The Ref.
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The worldwide football community corporately are still mourning the victims of last week's plane crash in Colombia involving huge parts of the Brazilian football team AF Chapecoense. Two football players active in European clubs have shown their solidarity on the field - in a way which is not in accordance with the Laws of the Game. Our rather sad Door no.4. During the French Ligue 1 match
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UEFA has chosen the following officials to take charge of next Tuesday's Champions League matches. Among others, Antonio Mateu Lahoz of Spain has been appointed to control the decisive Group B tie between Benfica and Napoli, while Clément Turpin of France has been assigned to Bayern vs Atlético. Slovenian Slavko Vinčić will make his Champions League debut in Manchester - congrats for that.
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