So it didn't come direct from Chicago, but I got it anyway. {quote} Referee Education Resources As discussed by Ryan Mooney at the recent workshop, May 1, 2012, will mark the inaugural release of the U.S. Soccer Referee Program Newsletter. This newsletter will be sent via email on a monthly basis to the greater referee community and showcase the education resources being created for the masses of officials working amateur games at the youth and adult levels. {end quote} I'm not going to post the whole thing, as states may want to use this is an instructional tool, but this bit caught my eye: {quote} Please click on the link below to view the type of video content slated to be released via the update. Also note that the attachment tab in the video has a sample write-up and PowerPoint files (both have been attached in PDF from) that can be used to further develop this topic in the local instructional environment. http://www.brainshark.com/ussoccer/vu?pi=zHTzFZPXiz31xyz0 {end quote}
Can you blame the coach for getting upset? After all, Terry Vaughn is the referee. Also, why isn't Vaughn wearing his FIFA badge?
I think Vaughn is an excellent referee, so I'm not a fan of the first half of your comment (unless it's meant in jest). He's probably not wearing his FIFA badge because it's an instructional video rather than a game. He's wearing his FIFA tonight in the COL v. NE game.
It's jest. I'm the last person you'll hear saying an MLS referee is terrible. I was just alluding to the fact that he had two or three games last year that weren't his greatest.
So, Andy, has the May 1 newsletter actually been mailed? I haven't seen my copy yet and I just checked my spam folder.
LOL....the ar in the video has run lines for me on numerous occassions....know him very well. And the field in question was the home field of the mens club team I coached three years ago....LOL!!!!!!!
The video would have been even more useful had it included the actual Ref audio. Alot of young and new refs could benefit from having a 'script' that they can rehearse.
Anyone know if they are supposed be posting to the USSF web site, too? I looked but didn't see it. (Doesn't mean its' not there . . . I find the structure so far from intuitive . . . )
Supposedly, this was going to be e-mailed to all USSF referees who have e-mail addresses in the USSF database on May 1. That apparently didn't happen.
He has (or had) it, but it wasn't the email/newsletter that was suppose to go out, it was a msg saying the first email/newsletter will soon go out, here an example of the content. He probably just figured US Soccer will actually do what they say and send it to everyone.
He has (or had) it, but it wasn't the email/newsletter that was suppose to go out, it was a msg saying the first email/newsletter will soon go out, here an example of the content. He probably just figured US Soccer will actually do what they say and send it to everyone.
Well, then, he did actually have it, now did he? I know he's not the kind of guy to keep that kind of thing to himself if it had actually been the real thing.
Musing . . . is it a sad commentary that the new regime found it necessary to choose irresponsible behavior by team officials as its first priority to address to refeerees? . . .
Did I miss something, or was the information in the ask/tell/dismiss pretty similar to the ask/tell/remove that was introduced a few years ago?
"Remove" has been replaced by "dismiss," which is the correct term in the Laws of the Game. This is not new, but it is an area where I see a lot of referees struggle. They get stuck on 'ask' or they don't recognize that they need to act. You wouldn't believe how often I see game reports where the referees say that the coaches were complaining the whole game, maybe even came over to yap at them after the game, and then no disciplinary action is shown on the game report. A topic, then, that bears repeating.