US Soccer Referee Abuse Policy (RAP)

[sigmabody]

Great clearance by Tarkowski, MacAllister should have played the ball.

Officiating severity of challenges has always been a judgement call, by the on field official or VAR (when available).

Personally (since we're opining about rules and interpretations), I think:
- The above was properly a yellow, imho (player player the ball but the follow-through was reckless, but didn't seem malicious)
- Hand ball offenses should need to be intentional, not called when the ball strikes the arm when the latter is in a natural position, not artificially extending the body, and the contact was essentially unavoidable (note: I know that's how the rule is actually written, but that's not how it's called on the field)
- Youth soccer should have more offenses called for playing the player and not the ball (ie: clear outs which extend past the play on the ball, and are more like football blocks than soccer plays)
- Youth soccer should have less offenses called for incidental contact while playing the ball on a challenge, particularly in cases where the ball was struck
- All levels of soccer should penalize players more for embellishment

Also, if I'm allowed to add a rule:
- Any player going to ground for presumed injury shall be given a visual 10 second count by the official, starting at the 6 second mark. If the player has not rejoined play by the end of the count, the official shall stop play (at the next neutral point), and assess the player for injury. Regardless of injury, this player must then exit the game, and cannot return (the team may substitute the player if they have substitutions remaining). This rule does not preclude the official from stopping play more quickly to assess a player, but any player who appears unable to rejoin play within ten seconds must leave the game and cannot return.

 

[Random]

Are you serious! You are want artificial rules to be set, to offset 'no-calls'! Precisely what type of 'formula' do you think might exist to account for the supposed 'no-call'? Jeeezzzs, unbelievable! ANY game officiated by a referee is subject to have an 'error in judgment', there is no 100% perfection existing in making calls. Everyone does the best that they can do, in most cases. Yes, there will always be some that have 'issues' in making/not making calls. They are not in the majority. Even when VAR is used, it has been proven to not always be effective in proper foul determination calls, and this is ON VIDEO.

https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/slot-says-tarkowski-tackle-a-clear-red-card-as-20256317.php

I think at youth/lower officiating levels, I might simply prefer more no-calls in both directions for offsides. Allow teams and strategies to take advantage of it, sure we'll get higher scoring youth matches. But I think something needs to be done to simply take poor officiating out of game results, at the younger/lower level officiating levels, the impact referees have on soccer results feels worse than other sports. That factor could very well be a part of why parents are so wound up towards soccer referees and eventually leads to abuse.

PS,
The terminology is 'offside', NOT 'offsides' .

I don't care too much about semantics or individual letters, English is a living language. The English used to have a short-hand for Association Football in their slang: "soccer". I don't see a problem with Americans calling offside "offsides" here in America.

 

[TopesWin]

I think at youth/lower officiating levels, I might simply prefer more no-calls in both directions for offsides. Allow teams and strategies to take advantage of it, sure we'll get higher scoring youth matches. But I think something needs to be done to simply take poor officiating out of game results, at the younger/lower level officiating levels, the impact referees have on soccer results feels worse than other sports. That factor could very well be a part of why parents are so wound up towards soccer referees and eventually leads to abuse.

I don't care too much about semantics or individual letters, English is a living language. The English used to have a short-hand for Association Football in their slang: "soccer". I don't see a problem with Americans calling offside "offsides" here in America.

Dont blame America for you not knowing what the offside infraction is called. Also, it's called the "touchline" not the "sideline" which you've been screaming at your players for 10 years. Why do you think all your players left? They all realize you have no idea what you are doing.

 

[Random]

Dont blame America for you not knowing what the offside infraction is called. Also, it's called the "touchline" not the "sideline" which you've been screaming at your players for 10 years. Why do you think all your players left? They all realize you have no idea what you are doing.

It's also called offside in American football, one letter and proper or improper pluralism about a game rule, doesn't change the meaning of anything anyone is saying. You know what I'm saying and so does everyone else, to point out such small details, actually takes away from any actual debate happening if there is no meaning lost. This isn't an academic setting where spelling and part of speech are being graded. It is literally distracting and completes beside any relevant point to the topic.

Not sure what the rest of your statements are about, at all. You might have me confused with someone else.

 

[sigmabody]

Not sure what the rest of your statements are about, at all. You might have me confused with someone else.

It's not the first time, fwiw. He/she has insulted me also in the exact same manner also (despite me not even being a coach, and a few attempts to correct). No idea what the deal is with that person; probably best to ignore.