AYSO National Referee Program Scenarios: Enhancing Refereeing Skills
Explore practical techniques and key principles in refereeing through scenarios involving different game situations. Learn how referees should adapt to meet players' needs, communicate decisions effectively, and maintain fair play. Enhance your skills in managing player behavior, ensuring safety, and promoting an enjoyable soccer experience.
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Refereeing is Thinking Refereeing is Thinking AYSO National Referee Program - #523
What Are We Doing Today? Learn practical techniques Learn about managing older players Learn how to provide maximum safety and enjoyment
Key Refereeing Principles The game is for the players. Referees should adjust management: To deliver what the players need Not what they think they need! Need is not absolute or unchanging: These players, these conditions, today
Key Refereeing Principles Book refereeing reduces options Do what is fair in the context of this game Don t give the players what they can t handle. Communicate decisions! Don t interfere with legitimate playing tactics.
Scenario 1 B16U. First 5 minutes. A free kick is awarded near midfield. An opposing player plants himself 3 yards from the ball, hands crossed over his groin. What action will a book referee take? What action should the referee take?
Scenario 2 TWEET! A1 G D D A3 R A2
Scenario 3 B14U. Blue players have only average skills, but show that they like tricky stuff. Coach and spectators of Blue team are vocal, freely objecting to throw-in decisions. During an attack near midfield, a Blue defender is beaten by an opponent who then deliberately trips him to stop the attack.
Scenario 4 B18U. Physical match with skillful play on both sides. Quite a few contact fouls so far, resulting in two verbal warnings (no cards). Only mild dissent. 35th minute. High ball near midfield. A Red forward and Blue defender, focused intently on playing the ball, run toward each other at high speed while looking upward at the ball as it descends. Both players jump simultaneously to head the ball and collide, chest-to-chest, falling on the ground.
Scenario 5 B18U. Below average skill. Quiet, uneventful game. Some jostling as players challenge, but no direct free kick fouls have been whistled. No score. End of first half approaches. An attacker with the ball 5 yards outside the penalty area is knocked over by a hard, clumsy charge. The attacker gets up quickly and gets in the face of the defender who fouled him, cursing.
Scenario 6 Part 1 B16U. Hot day. Attacker is bringing the ball down the left wing. Approaching the goal line, about 2 yards outside the penalty area, the attacker drives a hard cross into a defender standing just inside the area in a normal defensive posture. The ball strikes the defender s upper right arm and goes out over the goal line.
Scenario 6 Part 2 The referee is close to play and immediately signals for a corner kick. The attacker turns to the referee, holds out his arm, points up and down it with his other hand, and says in a sarcastic tone, What s this, ref?
Scenario 7 B14U. Attacker inside the Penalty Area crosses the ball to teammate (who is onside). Goalkeeper tries to intercept the pass by diving, arms extended, for the ball. There is a collision between the goalkeeper and the second attacker, who was a step closer to the ball than the goalkeeper. Coach and spectators are yelling for the referee to protect the goalkeeper.
Recap Book refereeing reduces options. Do what is fair in the context of this game. Don t give players what they can t handle. Communicate decisions! Don t interfere with legitimate playing tactics.
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