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Referee training session under Italian sun
Referee training session of the Associazione Italiana Arbitri CAN A – the Italian referees of the highest football level. The Italian referees had to pass their fitness tests at the beginning of the season. Someone filmed it and published it on YouTube accompanied with some relaxing music. I love it to see other referees do their training sessions. Check out the three video’s below about the referee training session. Video one contains the warming-up laps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILcDl887HgE Video two contains footage of the sprint tests. Video three contains something that looks like a shuttle-run (beep) test. And a new series of sprinting.
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Change decision: Irmatov gives penalty … oh no, a goal
Ravshan Irmatov whistled for a foul in the Confederations Cup match between Italy and Brazil and awarded a penalty. Then he realised that another Italian player scored a goal immediately after he whistled. He choose to change decision and awards the goal. Is that a correct call by the referee? Below an explanation based on the Laws of the Game, but first the video from that match. “He has admitted he made a mistake,” said FIFA spokesman Pekka Odriozola. Below there’s an explanation why it was a mistake, so you could learn from that. A short description of the situation: There’s a corner kick for Italy and players are duelling…
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Italian referee kicked on his head
Italian news website MNews reports that a referee has been kicked on his head. It’s not a pitch invasion like I posted last week, but this seems a serious violent offence against the referee. Check out the video below. Sad to see this referee hobbling slowly of the pitch after “being kicked on the head”, according to Italian news website Mnews. The teams Melito di Porto Salvo and Santo Stefano d’Aspromonte you were playing the game. The score was 5-3 at the moment of the incident. My Italian is not good (status: can understand texts only with Google Translate), so maybe my Italian followers could tell what the Italian FA…
