Week 1
U13 and U14 boys on Saturday. Games are being played on a turf field with marking for soccer, football, lacrosse and others given the fact that there were white, yellow, blue and red/orange lines on the ground. The matches were nothing spectacular, but it was interesting that I called a PK on one of the matches I was the center and mistakenly used a football extra point line instead of the PK spot. The kick still went in, so no big deal, but still, something to learn. Also, on another match, the team was using yellow for the goalkeeper, and so we needed to change to another color, but one of the ARs had no other color. Not a good start for him.
Sunday was just U15 girls, nothing special there.
Week 2
U 15 boys on Saturday, very well played games, but one club's parents were obnoxious to the point of no return. As an AR in one of the matches that they lost, they gave me hell for not calling an offsides which I saw as onside. But their comments were to the tune of, "What do you expect when he has sunglasses". Like that is going to make a big difference, but yet, it lead me to realize that when you are doing the AR with the parents involved, it does not pay to carry a conversation with them as they can turn on you.
Week 3
The most boring two ARs I have done in a long time. I do not think I had to actually run at any time, just trot. Painful.
2 comments:
USSF is no longer insisting on switching off from the GK's color shirt. They realized that it is not that big of a deal.
Thanks for the clarification. I still don't like to use it much if they are the same but I guess as centers or ARs, we do not make that much contact or go that deep for there to be a possible confusion.
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