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  • Case studies
  • Interviews
  • Tips & tricks
    • Development as ref: start with the selfscan
    • Game management
    • Goal-setting for referees
    • Effective communication
    • Mental toughness
    • Focus and concentration
  • Fitness
    • Importance of physical training
    • Fifa fitness test for referees (men and women)
    • Assistant referee fitness test
    • Change of Direction Ability (CODA) fitness test
    • Single Double Single High Intensity Interval Test
    • ARIET fitness test
    • Nutrition for referees
  • Resources
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    Kari Seitz wants to make real impact on behalf of women

    25 October, 2016 / No Comments

    Kari Seitz gets an inmportant job as  senior manager in FIFA’s referees department. “One of my key goals was always to be a role model and make a real impact on behalf of women”, she says on the website of FIFA. The US referee officiated at four different World Cups  (1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011), as well as three Olympic soccer tournaments (2004, 2008, and 2012). No other referee ever achieved that. Men’s record holder is Canadian assistant referee Hector Vergara with 14 matches in three different World Cups. Seitz’ first task is helping with the development of the prospective list of referees for the 2019 Women’s World Cup. She got…

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    Jan ter Harmsel

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    18 September, 2024
    Simona Ghisletta. Photo provided by referee.

    ‘Refereeing is expecting the unexpected’

    21 July, 2011
  • Blog,  video

    Floodlights fail during penalty shoot-out in football game

    30 May, 2016 / No Comments

    Floodlights fail during a penalty shoot-out in a football game. It’s 11 pm and at that moment the football players were taking penalty kicks. The score is 7 vs 7 and the lights stop automatically due to a programmed timer for the lighting. “Everything that can happen during a game, has happened”, the winning coach says on the KNVB website. Both teams compete for the title after they ended with the same number of points in their league. The game that has to decide who wins the league was exciting for 90 minutes. Because of the 2-2 score the game went in extra time. One of the teams scores, but…

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    Jan ter Harmsel

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    17 November, 2012
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    ‘Refereeing is expecting the unexpected’

    21 July, 2011

    Laws of the Game Quiz 2024-2025 #1

    18 September, 2024
  • Blog,  video

    How LFA Referees keeps and trains young referees

    24 November, 2015 / No Comments

    Nice short video on Youtube from the LFA Referees where they tell something about their courses and how they try to get young referees ready for the game. What can you do to keep your officials and prevent them to walking away? That’s a good question for LFA Referees while the number of referees is decreasing across the country. “You need to have the resources. Don’t just think about practical refereeing support, but also about pastoral support – a shoulder to cry on”. Plus you need a good course where young referees learn how to deal with difficult situations. Think about misbehaving players, coaches, and so on. The result for…

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    Jan ter Harmsel

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    17 November, 2012

    Laws of the Game Quiz 2024-2025 #1

    18 September, 2024
    Simona Ghisletta. Photo provided by referee.

    ‘Refereeing is expecting the unexpected’

    21 July, 2011
  • Blog,  video

    New referee task: removing ducks off the pitch

    12 July, 2015 / No Comments

    Fifa needs to update the Laws of the Game. Law 5 “The Referee”  is insufficient. Based on Zenit St. Petersburgs friendly we can add a new task: removing ducks off the pitch. But is it something that a referee should do?   As a referee you always want the game to be played, but do you really need to do such things? I’d ask someone from the club and let them catch the ducks or remove them from the pitch. Even the official Zenit Twitter account is into the duck-stories. Here’s one of their tweets. <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>And we pause for a bit of a duck delay. Don&#39;t worry, the…

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    Jan ter Harmsel

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    ‘Refereeing is expecting the unexpected’

    21 July, 2011

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  • Blog,  documentary,  video

    Day in the life of top referee Xavier Estrada Fernandez

    26 June, 2015 / No Comments

    Uefa filmed a day in the life of top referee Xavier Estrada Fernandez. He is one of the referees at the u21 European Championships being held in the Czech Republic. “We are priviliged men that we can do such a fantastic job.” A great way to show how a referee experiences a match day. Xavier Estrada Fernandez wakes up at 7 in the morning for breakfast. He also fills out a daily questionnaire about their fitness and does a mental check on the iPad. He and his team went to the train station and took the train to Olomouc. There he is in a private cabin where he can talk…

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  • tips & tricks,  video

    How to do a proper coin toss as referee

    20 June, 2015 / No Comments

    Svein Oddvar Moen, a Norwegian referee, didn’t do a proper coin toss earlier this month. It was quite a funny moment. He flipped the coin in the air, but it didn’t land in his hand or on the ground. It landed on the head of one of captain Espen Bugge Petterson Watch the clip from the toin coss in the game between Strømsgodset and  Lillestrom. Has this ever happened to you as a referee? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0OyYhAptow   Procedure for proper coin toss Gather the captains in the middle circle before the kick-off for the coin toss. Introduce yourself and shake hands. It’s polite to ask the visitors to choose for heads or tails…

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    Jan ter Harmsel
  • Blog,  news,  video

    Referee Mustafa Kamil Abitoglu retires with red card

    1 June, 2015 / No Comments

    Referee Mustafa Kamil Abitoglu retires as referee in Turkish football. His career ended with vanishing spray on his head and he got a red card from player Sabri. Referees in The Netherlands who retire get a firm handshake and maybe some flowers, but the retirement of Mustafa Kamil Abitoglu was quite different. The Turkish referee got vanishing spray on his and was lifted in the air after that by players from Caykur rizespor and Galatasaray. That were the teams he officiated during his last game on the Turkish top league. Mustafa Kamil Abitoglu has to retire because of the retirement age of 45, which he will reach on June 15th…

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