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‘Hardest match ever’ for Austrian referee Harkam
4 penalties, 2 red cards, five goals and crowds on the field. And that in just one half. The soccer season in Austria has already begun. “It was my hardest match ever and I think nobody will ever have this again”, says the referee Alexander Harkam. In preparation before this season the Dutch Referee blog interviewed the Austrian referee. Read the first part and second part of that interview. The video of the extraordinary match between Wiener Neustadt en Lask Linz in the Austrian Bundesliga is published by tv channel Laola 1. When you see the highlights you see that the referee made very good calls even though the number…
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Harkam is already preparing for next season
Interview with Austrian Bundesliga referee Alexander Harkam. He tells about his future, career and World Cup referees.
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The busy life of an Austrian Bundesliga referee
100 matches, 60 training sessions, four running tests, four rules of football tests, four meetings in the top league, eight meetings for our regional competitions and about 30 nightshifts in my job as a prison officer. That’s the busy life of 28-year-old Alexander Harkam, a talented Austrian Bundesliga referee. This is part 1 of an interview with Alexander Harkam. Part two is published exclusively on the Dutch Referee blog. “As you see, my wife is the football. No joke. I really love my wife and my two daughters. It is very important that you have a family. But you need some time-outs”, says Harkam. Spending so much time on refereeing…