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Referees in the media (week 35)
MBWN6ZY4JZVP ‘Referees in the media’ will be published at the beginning of the week on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. “Back to Aberdeen to unpack etc and get ready for my game tomorrow in Peterhead, fingers crossed my luggage arrives in one piece in Aberdeen!” Morag Pirie, Scottish female referee, just came back from a mini-tournament for women’s Champions League, and has a game the next day. Good diary (also about the things referees do beside officiating) about her seven days in Slovakia. “We noticed Abirami’s potential to develop further when she attended the AFC Project Future training and…
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Referees in the media (week 7)
‘Referees in the media’ will be published at the beginning of the week on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. “The referee had a broken nose and was bleeding like a cow. We punished Luis heavily and told him it was the end.” The technical director of Nacional, Daniel Enriquez, about an incident with Luis Suarez when he was just 15. “If you have confidence in yourself and have good attitude, I’m sure you will be successful in this programme.” AFC Referees Director Yoshimi Ogawa at the start of the Project Future Referees. “It’s very good that players and referees…
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Referees in the media (week 3)
‘Referees in the media’ will be published at the beginning of the week on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. “We should reflect on the experience tennis and rugby on their own methods including temporary exclusions (the sin bin), public explanation of referee’s decisions, or rugby’s penalty try for example.” FIFA’s former director of international relations Jerome Champagne has suggested changes in the world governing body in an interview with Reuters. “I’ll take all necessary measures to clear my name. What they did is so sneaky.” Says Bulgarian referee Raicho Raichev about Luchezar Yonov, a suspended referee, who used Raichev’s…