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Adrien Jaccottet chose refereeing instead of selling hot dogs
The story of a Swiss football player who had to choose between selling hot dogs or officiating children’s matches. He chose the latter and now is Adrien Jaccottet an international football referee. First, I’d like to congratulate you with your promotion to the second group of Uefa’s international list. How does that feel? “Thank you very much. I am of course very pleased to be promoted. It is a wonderful feeling and a great reward for my dedicated and hard work these past few years.” How did you become a referee? (and why) “I used to play for a football club as a boy. They used to organise a youth…
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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,…