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Welcome on DutchReferee.com
Dear readers, I’ve just created a new account for my blog: DutchReferee.com. It gives me more possibilities to add special features to my blogs. This means this is the last post on this address. All interviews and articles will be published here from now on. I hope you’ll keep enjoying them, as well as the video’s I post along with them. In the next weeks I can promise you an interview with a Belgian top referee in futsal and football (yeah, it’s the same person), a Dutch referee about his experiences in the US in comparison with European officiating. Later today I’ll post a nice refereeing cartoon, made this week…
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‘99.9 percent of managers are well behaved’
“Personally I’d like to see the use of technology for goal line incidents only”, says Darren Handley, Footall League assistant referee. Second part of the interview, written by Dave Humphreys. Read also the first part. So, thinking about all the initiatives to try and improve refereeing standard, would you be in favour of video technology or the UEFA implemented additional assistants? *Chuckles* “It’s a massive, massive topic; it’s in the media 24-7. It’s a huge, huge area, what’s black is black, what’s white is white and currently as we state. Personally I’d like to see the use of technology for goal line incidents only. The difficultly you have with video…
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‘Refereeing is becoming more and more demanding’
“Refereeing at high level is becoming more and more demanding”, says Darren Handley, Football League assistant referee. Interview written by Dave Humphreys. Darren, can you tell me how you got into refereeing and gone on to achieve your status as a Football League assistant referee? “I started at the age of 14, I played local football for junior teams for my father, he was a referee, I struggled to play to a high level week in week out, he said why don’t you try refereeing? So I signed to do a couple of lines when he was refereeing. Then at the age of 14 I refereed my first ever game…
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Discipline and sacrifice brought Carlos Simon 3 WC’s
Referee Carlos Eugenio Simon is preparing to hang up his whistle at the end of the season. He’s mentioned as a candidate for Minister of Sport in his counrtry Brazil and perhaps will engage in political life in the near future. Written by Valdir Bicudo, a befriended Brazilian journalist and referee commentator at Parana Online. Simon was the Brazilian representative in the last three World Cups. He’s, as a well-known referee, adored by many and opposed by many other fans. In an interview with Parana Online, Simon speaks about all the years in his career, the experience gained over time, analyzes the current arbitration in Brazil and abroad, and comments…
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Golden medal for the referees at the World Cup
Unlike goalies and the Jabulani ball, the referees are going unnoticed at the World Cup. Written by Valdir Bicudo, a befriended Brazilian journalist and referee commentator at Parana Online. It’s his round-up after the first round at this World Cup. In an interview with Fifa spokesman Nicolaz Maingot last Tuesday, when he traveled between Pretoria and Johannesburg, told that the performance of referees and assistants in the early matches of World Cup in South Africa were highly impressive. According to Maingot, Fifa, the entity that handles the football on the planet, has done efforts as never showed before to improve arbitration at the World Cup. For example the implementation of…
