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Shocking revelations: "With Hamburg, I carried the suitcase myself!"
Today, April 25, marks the 36th anniversary of Dinamo - Liverpool, the return of the European Champions Cup semi-final from the 1983-1984 season. Cornel Dinu, who assisted head coach Nicolae Nicușor in...
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Return to Play plan accepted in Poland
Polish Prime Minister gave the green light to the return of Polski Ekstraklasa players to the football fields. They will be able to resume training on prepared facilities in accordance with the...
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Mexican referees are economically disadvantaged
As a result of the suspension of Liga MX, Mexican referees have been the most affected in terms of income since they have stopped receiving up to 154,000 pesos a month, which is the maximum amount they...
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Futebol 7 hires World Cup referees
Futebol 7 Brazil announced the launch of the University of Futbol 7, with the aim of training professionals to work in the modality in different areas of Futbol 7, UNI7, which will officially begin...
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Codesal: “Maradona was swearing profusely during the national anthem”
Diego Maradona could have been shown a red card before the 1990 World Cup final after swearing 'profusely' during the national anthems – according to the referee in charge, who he later called a...
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Tunisian referee shows cards for not respecting the safety distance
His name is Abdelhag Etlili, he lives in Nabeul, on the east coast of Tunisia, and he is a handball referee in his country. Although he is only 19 years old, he is very concerned about the images he is...
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Fernanda Colombo: “sexual proposal” that made her feel like garbage
The former Brazilian assistant referee Fernanda Colombo shared on her social networks an email that was sent to her in which a person offered her to work by selling her body to be with men who would...
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Vautrot: from heart problems to the Legion of Honour
Michel Vautrot was born on 23 October 1945 in Saint-Vit, France. The son of a family of farmers, as a child he was weak and sickly, to the point that heart problems kept him away from school for a...
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Referee Koroleva on the frontlines against pandemic
When Concacaf referee Ekaterina “Katja” Koroleva is not officiating some of the region’s most important women’s national team tournaments, she works as a Physician Assistant in the Emergency Room with...
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50th anniversary of yellow and red cards in football
It all started from a fracas which occurred during the 1966 World Cup quarter-final at Wembley between England and Argentina which resulted in the Argentinian captain Rattin being sent off... and after...
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Yellow card for “unhygienic behaviour”?
Footballers could be on the receiving end of a booking from referees for spitting in games due to the potential spread of coronavirus from saliva, says FIFA's Medical Committee chairman. As well as...
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Spanish referees still receive the "fixed" amount agreed with RFEF
A few weeks ago we found out that the First Division referees stopped receiving some payments as a result of the suspension of professional competition, amounts that have been modified once this...
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Player suspended 50 years for violence against referees
Portuguese Ricardo Ferreira (1986), an amateur player of the Portugal Futebol Clube of the Swiss Fourth Division, was suspended for 50 years, in 2014, for having hit a referee at the end of a match....
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FIFA's plan for 5 substitutes to be fast-tracked for approval by IFAB
The IFAB, football's lawmakers, will move quickly to approve FIFA's proposal that teams can make up to five substitutions per match, instead of the usual three, as a temporary measure to help cope with...
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Webb and Geiger on their most talked-about calls
Howard Webb and Mark Geiger, two of the most well-known referees produced by England and the United States, respectively, are now among the lead staff at the Professional Referee Organization, which...
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UEFA refereeing family is keeping fit
Thanks to careful planning, detailed research and preparation, expert advice, and a spirit of teamwork and positive thinking on all sides, the match officials – referees, assistant referees and video...
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Clattenburg has hair transplant top up before going into lockdown
The ex-official filled in a patch of thinning hair on his crown and is sprouting his new locks while the UK hunkers down against coronavirus. And when the country emerges from isolation, Clattenburg,...
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Rizzoli explains Inter - Juventus VAR controversy
Refereeing designator Nicola Rizzoli hit back at suggestions from a former FIGC prosecutor that VAR clips ‘disappeared’ from Inter-Juventus. ‘It never existed.’ The controversy erupted when former FIGC...
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Hussein: “It’s the same rules on the pitch as in the pharmacy”
On the pitch, she is "the boss". Her job as a referee is to ensure that players adhere to the Laws of the Game, while she makes decisions that are not always popular and has to mete out disciplinary...
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Five substitutes temporarily allowed, VAR could be scraped
As football begins to consider resumption of competitions across the world following the Covid-19 pandemic, The International Football Association Board (The IFAB) has agreed to make a temporary...
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