The story of a Swiss football player who had to choose between selling hot dogs or officiating children’s matches. He chose the latter and now is Adrien Jaccottet an international football referee. First, I’d like to congratulate you with your … Continue reading →
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The scores from all your first round predictions for the World Cup Referees are counted. Sorry for the delay, it took much longer counting all the scores manually. The referee with the most points is Chefren, who predicted 23 referees … Continue reading →
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Goalscorer gets a red card from the referee for headbutting dugout in football match on Italian amateur level between Ponticelli – Riolo Terme. Result: Ponticelli – Riolo Terme 1-3 SINTESI Competition: Campionato 2°Categoria Girone P 2013-2014 Match date: 09-02-2014 Location: … Continue reading →
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The video below shows why Howard Webb is a football referee and not a player. Not well taken penalty kick from the English referee in a Legends match at Oakwell. Watch the penalty kick of referee Howard Webb.
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Fifa has announced the Algarve Cup referees. The Algarve Cup is a global invitational tournament for women’s national teams. The cup is organised by the Portuguese Football Federation and according to Fifa an important tournament in preparation of the Fifa … Continue reading →
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Yellow card relinguished by Argentine referee Carlos Maglio. He gave it to the fourth official so everyone could see it. Maglio already booked eight players at that moment in a friendly between Argentine rivals Estudiantes and Gimnasia. The players were … Continue reading →
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Candidate Fifa president Jérôme Champagne launched his future plans to make Fifa an organisation of the 21st century. He wants to introduce an orange card and a sin bin for players. Champagne got backed up for his candidacy by Brazilian … Continue reading →
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New for football match officials: the Nike 2014-2015 referee kit. You can find them already in the Nike brochure for the 2014-2015 season. The kits have different colours compared to the previous Nike referee kits. Black, yellow and grey will … Continue reading →
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As referees, we have a tough ride in general; particularly those operating at the top level with English Premier League officials being perhaps the most ‘scrutinised’ of all. Some parts of the tough ride we bring upon ourselves, it has … Continue reading →
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Fifa has selected 25 refereeing trio’s for the World Cup. The names are: From Europe: Brych, Cakir, Eriksson, Kuipers, Mazic, Proenca, Rizzoli, Carballo and Webb. From Africa: Doue, Gassama, Haimoudi. From Oceania: O’Leary From South-America: Osses, Pitana, Roldan, Ricci, Vera … Continue reading →
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Björn Kuipers’2013 was very special. He had some very good matches and officiated the 2013 Confederations Cup final, a Champions League semi-final and the Europa League final. He also made a very brave call in the World Cup Qualifying match … Continue reading →
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Fifa referees are receiving their badges for 2014. Below you can find a Twitter photo collection of photo’s from refs with their new badge. Referees from Italy: Valentina Garoffolo and Graziella Pirraiatore and Carina Vitulano. Graziella Pirriatore confermata per il … Continue reading →
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The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) has chosen Howard Webb from England als world’s best referee of 2013. Experts from 70 countries and from all the football continents took part in the 2013 annual election for the … Continue reading →
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Watch this NHL Life Series which showcases NHL Referee Tom Kowal. “A referee’s Life” is a short documentary about a referee in the highest hockey league of the USA and Canada. Tom Kowal tells about a flood on June 20 … Continue reading →
The post Tom Kowal: 4 tips from an NHL referee appeared first on Football: Dutch Referee Blog for match officials.
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Hi referees, happy New Year? How are you doing? Hopefully you started 2014 well. The Dutch Referee Blog wishes all referees a happy 2014 http://youtu.be/A2-S58iMTEg What are your refereeing goals in 2014? Do you have any special plans? Please share … Continue reading →
The post Happy 2014 for all referees appeared first on Football: Dutch Referee Blog for match officials.
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The Dutch Referee Blogs publishes interviews with referees from all levels of football every now and then. Here are the 5 best read referee interviews of 2013. Kevin Blom. The Dutch referee who wrongly gave a penalty kick to the … Continue reading →
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The referee is having a bad day. What’s the first thing you think of when you read that? A bad performance of a referee? Or did you think about a referee being beaten up? Just watched a video on YouTube … Continue reading →
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Are you creative and want to try something new? Make your own wooden referee whistle. If you have the right equipment, it’s very easy to make. Steve Ramsey shows you how to do it in the video below. Ramsey: “This … Continue reading →
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Buy Zeinstra referee outfit for charity Serious Request. The highest bid is now on evening of the 24th of December: 255 euro’s. The referee shirt from assistant referee Zeinstra is used during the European Championship of 2012. On the shirt … Continue reading →
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The post Dutch Referee Blog wishes you a Merry Christmas appeared first on Football: Dutch Referee Blog for match officials.
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