The new quiz is live. It’s week 18 Laws of the Game Quiz 2018-2019. How do you like the quizzes so far?
Thanks all for participating.
An interesting one this week. How would you handle in the following situation? A player is in offside position at the moment of the pass in his direction. At the moment he is challenging an opponent for the ball an offence is committed against him, when a defender pulls his shirt. What does the referee decide?
Scoring directly from a corner kick. Is that allowed? But does the referee need to whistle? An interesting case study with AZ player Oussama Idrissi.
The referee gives no signal to take the corner kick.
The Laws of the Game give advice on when you whistle as referee, but a referee does not require it in all situations.
Because the following restarts are clear, the referee does NOT need to whistle to restart play from:
Idrissi can take this corner kick, because waiting for a whistle is not mandatory. The AZ goal is legal.
Just a quick recap of the corner kick procedure. The requirements are that the ball:
There are two other requirements are that the corner flag remains at its place and oponents must remain at least 9.15 m (10 yds) from the corner arc until the ball is in play.
That’s okay here. And can you score? “A goal may be scored directly from a corner kick, but only against the opposing
team”.
All boxes ticked. A wonderful goal that will go around the globe.
Watch the video below where Idrissi is scoring directly from a corner kick. It is a great example, because it is a rare situation.
It’s Week 17 Laws of the Game Quiz 2018-2019. Good luck!
Uefa launches a Refereeing Assistance Programme twice a year. It contains clips of recent match situations. You can install this on your pc or mac and train your refereeing knowledge. In case you missed it, it’s quite interesting material to develop yourself.
Thanks to my readers I got the 2018:2 Refereeing Assistance Programme 2018:2
Thanks to readers of my blog I can present you Refereeing Assistance Programme 2018-1. Please be aware the files are huge (10GB), so download via wifi.
Some experience problems with installing MAC versions. This document might help you.
Thanks to readers of my blog I can present you Refereeing Assistance Programme 2017-2.
New situations from the last six months. Quite interesting for us all. Download the files and practice at home.
Some experience problems with installing MAC versions. This document might help you.
A great download with match situations from the Women’s Euro in 2017.
I am trying to get the 2017-2 version for you, but can already share the first edition of 2017 with you. In a few days I hopefully also have the Women’s Euro version.
Download Refereeing Assistance Programme 2017-1.
(below you’ll also find older versions)
Please note the files are links to WeTransfer files. Because the size is about 5 GB, make sure you have your wifi on. I personally have not tested the MAC-link, because I have a PC.
Download for PC
Download for MAC
I got these links via Arbiter Café on Twitter. Much appreciated!
You can watch video’s in different categories, but will not see the correct call immediately. Make sure you think for yourself what decision you will make. Then you can click at the right bottom text, which gives you an explanation.
Good luck and enjoy!
Week 16 Laws of the Game Quiz 2018-2019. What happens when a ball becomes defective at a penalty kick? And what if a player hits a 4t official in the face when doing a substitution? Good luck with the test.
And a quick note: one of last week’s questions is also on YouTube now. You’ll find more video’s there in the future, so make sure to subscribe.
Different types of referee training will make you fit enough to referee. But what are the differences and how do they help you? In this blog post I’ll share 4 types of referee training sessions and the effect they will have.
Football is a sport where interval training seems the most logical way to train. The tempo of the game changes a lot, because the ball goes out or players run faster during an attack. But that doesn’t mean you should do only endurance training seassions. There is more and all are functional for you as referee.
The 4 types, from low to high-intensity, are:
If you follow an extensive endurance training you train at low intensity, but usually for a longer time. Because of the duration of the training you’ll get fatigued.
I shared an example of this type of training in the pre-season fitness tips for referees.
KNVB’s refere fitness trainer says: “The effect is improvement of your basic endurance and fat burning. Your feeling during the exercises: easy breating, low intensity for muscles and low levels of sweat loss.
The intensive endurance training is a bit quicker than the extensive endurance traning, but still no sprinting. The duration of exercises are a bit shorter and the tempo a little higher. But the idea is that you don’t have big speed differences in the exercises. So you’ll remain at a continious tempo.
KNVB’s refere fitness trainer says: “The effect is that you improve your endurance. And your feeling during the exercises: low intensity for muscles, easy breathing and average sweat loss.
Now we’re getting faster. The extensive interval training will have more sprints. If you use a heart rate monitor you’ll notices it goes up a little and the distance you’ll run are shorter.
KNVB’s refere fitness trainer says: “the effect is increased maximum performance level. And you’ll notice sore legs and heavy breathing.”
The intensive interval training is even faster than the previous type on the list. The distance is not always shorter, but speed and heart rate is higher again. The breaks between the runs in a series are usually a bit longer.
KNVB’s refere fitness trainer says: “the effect is development of the maximum performance and speed. You’ll notice it’s very exhaustive for both breathing and muscles.”
Because the interval training sessions are at higher pace, it’s important to not repeat them too quick. KNVB’s advice is to take a recovery time of 24 hours for endurance training sessions and 72 hours for interval training sessions. But you should always listen to your own body and your own physical ability.
During the upcoming weeks you’ll get some examples of the diffeent types of referee training exercises.
It’s a time for Week 15 Laws of the Game Quiz 2018-2019. Some interesting questions again for you all.
If you want to win the goodies by Refsworld UK, then make sure to enter the same user name as in the first quiz of January. Good luck with the quiz.