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Urs Meier expects more European referees to quit
Former Swiss referee boss Urs Meier is shocked that four of twelve Swiss top referees will quit after this season. He warns the Football Association that there will be more refereeing problems in the future if the FA does not change it’s policy. And Switzerland is not the only country which has to worry about their refereeing future, says Urs Meier in an interview with by the Dutch Referee Blog and World of Football Refereeing. Last month Damien Carrel (30), Cyril Zimmermann (36) Daniel Wermelinger (41) and Ludovic Gremaud (32) announced their retirement as Swiss referee. They’ll stop after this season due to lack of respect and lack of financial…
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Bertolini will be the new Swiss referee boss
Carlo Bertolini will be the new Swiss referee boss. He succeeds Urs Maier, who resigned in June because he didn’t feel support from the FA in professionalising refereeing in Switzerland. The new chief stopped his national career after last season. He was international from 1997 to 2010, when he got to retire because of Uefa’s age restrictions. “The first goal I want to achieve after the resignation of Urs Maier, is to give the top referees a certain certain security and stability again”, says Bertolini in Wednesday’s interview on the website of the Swiss FA. He feels the pressure of making new plans pretty fast. “The season starts this weekend,…
