Getting back to the seminar that I mentioned a couple of posts ago, the important points that were mentioned were the following...
1. Get the rulebook from the FIFA site instead of the USSoccer site because the USSoccer site has only the first part of the FIFA book, the other part included in the FIFA book contains examples and more references helping you with the gray areas.
The FIFA link to the LOTG is here: http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/federation/81/42/36/lotg_en.pdf
The US version is here: http://images.ussoccer.com/Documents/cms/ussf/07_law_of-the-game.pdf
2. No chewing gum while reffing (FIFA disapproves)
3. A regular foul becomes misconduct when considering the follow: point of contact, direction of contact, time and severity, intent and result. If some or many of these are leaning towards reckless, then the yellow card needs to be shown.
Finally, there was a site mentioned that was going to be up and running soon that was going to have clips, etc. but I just went to it and it is not working now. I am putting it out anyway on the hopes that it will be working soon. http://www.thereflink.com/USSOCCER/index.html (updated on 3/11/09).
The presentations were good but really geared towards those with grade 7 or better it seemed. I will attend next year however, as there were other tidbits that I found useful.
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