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Join us for our next live Educational Webinar: Wednesday, September 27th from 7:00–8:30 p.m. Our webinars are open to everyone: coaches, players, parents, spectators and referees. Our special guest is FIFA and MLS Referee, Tori Penso. Already well-established as a high-level referee, Penso made...

Cal South Referee Monthly Educational Webinars Join us for our next live Educational Webinar: Wednesday, April 19, from 7 pm - 8:30 pm. Our special guest is our very own, Pro MLS & Video Match Official and newly appointed USYS Senior Manager of Referees, Daniel Radford. Webinar Topic: Player...

The Official Word: Referee News | February 2023 Cal South Referee Monthly Educational Webinars Join us for our next live Educational Webinar: Wednesday, February 15th, from 7 pm - 8:30 pm. Our special guest is former FIFA Referee and CBS/Fox Sports Rules Analyst, Christina Unkel. Webinar...

To Soccer Coaches, Players, Parents, Spectators and Referees, We are proud to announce FIFA Referee Ismail Elfath will be our guest speaker Jan 18th, 2023 at 7pm for our Cal South Monthly Educational Webinar. We are privileged & excited to hear his experience during his historic 4th official...

Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association is returning to play and has released modified playing rules. The referees are required to wear masks, use electronic whistles and enforce LOTG modifications. The LOTG modifications are on page 4 of the attachment and feature no throw-ins, no walls, no...

I talked to several referees and coaches this weekend as I was hearing similar stories. Every single one I talked to said they only had 1 or two referees on Saturday. This went down as far as single persons on Rec games to having only 2 people on many U17-19 SCDSL and SDDA games. This happened...

Presidio/SDDA will implement a new sideline behavior rule that should hopefully stop the crazy parents from yelling at the referees and players from the other team. The actual rule (copy and pasted) from the Presidio website is below. In a nutshell, if a spectator/parent is ejected from the...

This is an answers video, but it is good enough for purposes of discussion. You can find the full test as well as the "difficult" test here http://www.law-11.com/video-training.html This is a good intro to the flash lag effect. Flash lag is when "A moving object is perceived as spatially...

Overseen at the Surf Sports Park/Del Mar Polo Fields this weekend for the So Cal Blues Tournament. For context: only Youngers were held at this location, the Olders were in Oceanside. We all kind of guessed that this happens, but I always thought it was beer, or at least something more...

Here's my spicy hot take for the week: If we referees really believe that parents are uninformed/biased, then we should ignore/dismiss parent compliments just as much as we do parent complaints. Similar corollary for coaches. If a coach compliments me towards the beginning of the game...

Australia was putting up a good fight when a no-call penalty decision was reviewed by VAR. 60 seconds or so later, the referee whistles for VAR check and orders the penalty afterwards. I didn't get a chance to check what was being said on FOX, but the English BBC broadcasters were almost...

I have a question, does the Cal South accident insurance cover referees at a sanctioned Cal South tournament? http://media.calsouth.com/data/Downloads/Insurance/2016%20Youth/CalSouthSAIClaim Form-English.pdf

If you need a active, knowledgeable referee to officiate a scrimmage, match, etc please feel free to contact me, details on my page, theofficialart.weebly.com College student looking for some side gigs while actively refereeing for Calsouth, Highschool, and tournaments. Adult games are fine too...

The one word I hear most from spectators is "Handball." 19 out of 20 times the spectators have it wrong. If only spectators actually knew the Handling criteria and what the referee is using to make the decision, there would be less yelling at the referee in youth games. Here is a good...

Most referees should know what I am talking about. Sometimes I get my referee assignments for a weekend and think "These games are going to suck." But, I still go out and referee like it is a top level final. Then there are times like today when I get assignments (Surf Cup olders) and think...