Category: LOTG
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Ref Life: Mentoring and learning safety outside of the LOTG.
This first full weekend in June feels more like a week in August. Unfortunately I’m still doing games into June instead of taking the SUP out on the river and battling the wake boats to stand up. Today was a day that I wouldn’t mind falling off the board and taking the dip in the…
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Ref Life: During your pregame walk through.
What would you do if you show up to a field and immediately upon inspecting the goals see this???? I know the referee tests always remind you to check the nets, make sure the goals are anchored, but do they ever address a mechanically modified goal where something not part of the goal extends into…
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Ref Life: Grassroots to Regional
Here are the basics per US Soccer. If you live in Western PA the basics are easy navigating the path is a little more challenging at the current time but there are people out there who can help you, you just need to keep asking, FYI with PRO there is not longer a State, it’s…
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Ref Life: Jr. Officials for schools.
Imagine this. . .players being officials! Now go out and get started by talking it up to the players. Remember it’s much easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. If you would like to take up the whistle feel free to reach out to me,
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Ref Life:Another year of Football signals for Football in the PA High Schools.
Breaking news, referees don’t have to be zebras anymore according to the governing body of Pennsylvania High School Sports. A much bigger story would be getting the existing soccer chapters to agree to ditch the stripes of every other American sports for the contemporary look used by referees globally. The push to improve sportsmanship is…
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Referee Recruitment for real…
The year is 2022. We are in year three of Covid-19 soccer here in the United States. We had the entire spring season of 2020 wiped out as the world learned how to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and began to study how to treat people who tested positive of Covid-19. Our fall season of…
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Jr. High: FIFA warm up’s:
It is summer time. High school soccer players are doing optional conditioning sessions to prepare for the compressed and condensed fall season in Pennsylvania that runs from mid August to Halloween. One key part to conditioning is making the running/training game like to prepare for the challenges on the rubberized pitches. Our friends at FIFA…
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