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FIFA RAP MA Referees Course ends on high
Instructors course on today, Assessors on Tuesday & Wednesday
FIFA and Local Instructors (seated) pose with the top achievers (standing) of the FIFA RAP MA Referees Course.
By Franklin Wilson
The first phase of a FIFA three-phase Referees Course, the first of its kind to be held in the world, concluded yesterday at Olympic House, High Street. The first course which saw 33 Referees taken through the intricacies of Laws 11 and 12; on field work which included fitness, ended yesterday after five-days.
Speaking with Kaieteur Sport on the First segment of the Three-Phase Course, FIFA Referee Fitness Instructor and FIFA FUTURO 111 Instructor Merere Louis Gonzales of Trinidad and Tobago said that based on the summary of the evaluation done by FIFA Referee Development Officer – Ramesh Ramdan of T&T and the feedback from the participants, they were overall quite satisfied with the dispensation of information with regard to the most recent technical information concerning Laws 11 (Offside) and 12 (Fouls & Misconduct) made easy.
“Also clippings on the new trivia test which is questions and answers in addition to the extensive work we did in the practical training sessions – fitness and technical. Overall they have enjoyed the course.”
Gonzales informed that there would have been some concerns at the beginning with the miscommunications as regards the organizing but they were able to cross that hurdle.
He commended Referee Instructor Lawrence ‘Sparrow’ Griffith for the level of work he put into getting things together.
The first day of the course was held at Zoom Inn Hotel with the next three days taking place at the National Library and the final day at Olympic House.
Gonzales lauded the enthusiasm and high aspirations showed by the local group of referees but noted his concern with the concentration levels of the officials on and off the field.
“My concern, in all my years in coming to Guyana, I have observed that there seems to be a challenging issue when it comes to concentration inside and out of the classroom. There might be a number of reasons for that. Possibly people are easily distracted and you will have to attend to that because in a game you have to be focused.
Or perhaps the person encoding the information may have to readjust his/her style of communication for the persons who are receiving the info.”
Gonzales noted that the issue of concentration remains the number one challenge for referees throughout the world.
While Stanley Lancaster received a certificate for being the top student in the classroom overall, eight other referees also received certificates for excelling in the classroom and on the field. They are Kayode Lambert, Kevin Stephens, Trevor Porter, Miguel Vieira, Albert Duncan, Christopher Joseph, Kleon Lindley and Sherwin Johnson.
Griffith and Roy Mc Arthur who recently returned from the FUTURO 111 Instructors course in Jamaica were commended by Gonzales for the work they have also done during this course.
“These two guys must be commended it’s one of the countries in which we have done the FUTURO 111 Instructors that we are able to now to come back to the country and actually see the MA Instructors involved in the tutoring aspect of the course. We have had situations where we have had persons before and had to actually run the entire course because the persons were not up to scratch but it is good to see these guys involved. They can only improve as time goes on.”
FIFA Referee Instructor – Peter Prendergast of Jamaica is the other Instructor. The Instructor Course will he held today while the Course for Assessors will be held tomorrow and Wednesday at Olympic House from 09:00hrs daily.
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