speaking of former MLS referees. Whatever happens to Sorin Stoica? And also i know he’s been gone since the pandemic. But whatever happened to...
football understanding
I call your bet and raise you: the most dangerous thing is a men’s amateur player with nothing to play for in a game that is decided or done....
there’s also a wide culture and variety of teams with certain attitudes towards referees. If you’re in a more affluent area versus inner city team...
is that even outside the area? Lol
It’ll be interesting at camp seeing the SMO’s picketing them. And at games too!
Would there be a possibility they’ll put PRO referee coaches in the VAR booth?
Tik tok, tik tok. Clock is running out.
funny aside. When I first got into doing HS soccer way back yonder one of the other officials said “hey you’re not bad at this you should give...
softball teams take their dugout chants and cheering very seriously.
It’s a possibility. They’d have to be flown out to the United States which would probably be a barrier… now officials in Mexico…
There’s a whole pool of PRO2 Tier D officials to draw from and then all the nationals. The interesting aspect will be those officials, and I say...
We still have cash games in my neck of the woods. Happy to referee some games for $60-70-80. I was talking to an old timer and he mentioned that...
That’s like one assessor telling me bout getting games via fax!
This is nothing new for some posters on here. Many have to juggle arbitersports, Demosphere, PROSphere, now RefQuest+ on top of local stuff held...
mine are all there if you look on US Soccer game officials and check under referee portfolio and toggle the dates
futsal comes quick. A lot of bang bang decisions and often times learning to sell stuff or find that 1 yd sidestep to make an accurate decision....
They'll tack it on the paycheck! lolz
sorry realized I never answered this after playing catch up at work. The context was more personalized for me and I realize I left out some...
I'll take a stab. From an organizational standpoint, I think the pre-tourney meeting was actually engaging (or at least Mark Geiger's part) even...
everyone signing up to be selected for the tourney knew the sunk costs coming in and expectations. The opportunity to work in front Rick eddy and...
considerations: clear, impactful… and then sustained and expected?
The solo games I do are normally adult matches assigned that way; I don't do much youth anymore so I haven't had that issue when I did it. The few...
you know you’re taking the next couple steps when you find yourself driving a couple of hours for inservice meetings and training outside reffing...
How has referee retirement been treating you?