Soccer Fouls - Free Kicks, Penalty Kicks, Indirect Free Kicks, Yellow and Red Cards

The 2010 season is due to commence next week so get yourself familiar with the laws of the game concerning:

1. Direct Free Kick
2. Penalty Kick
3. Indirect Free Kick
4. Yellow and Red Cards

Courtesy of http://worldsoccer.about.com/od/soccer101/a/Soccer101_Fouls.htm

Referees In the ACT and Respect for the Game

This program was broadcast on 2xxfm Australian Community Radio Network on 23 March 2010.


In this program we take a further look at the English FA Respect Campaign. They have a saying which makes good sense:

Lose respect, Lose the Game

We speak to the State Coach of Referees, Clive MacKillop, on the recent meeting the key referee officials had with the PL and other Coaches (well those Clubs that bothered to attend!) to discuss concerns / issues for the 2010 season. Not surprisingly, for the Referees the hot button issue is "Respect". Clive also makes some important points about "tackling" which at eht moment seems to be the source of a good deal of misunderstanding and a few too many yellow cards.

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The English Football, Sheffield & Hallamshire FA, make the following points on the Respect Campaign:

Coach - What Do You Do About Lazy Players With Bad Attitudes and Parents From Hell!

A straight forward piece of advice from http://www.footy4kids.co.uk/

I can think of a couple of players in the Club I am associated with that fall into this category. Bet you can too! Life is too short to waste time on these malcontents. Let the axe fall!

Get rid of lazy players with bad attitudes.

No amount of good coaching and team building can fully overcome the negative impact of whiners and kids or families that aren't up for the challenge. Let them move on to some other team or activity where they will be happy. Get input from your coaching directors, from other players, from parents, and find out what's really going on. Be more observant and take note of how the players are interacting, look at body shape and eye contact, enthusiasm, and verbal support from the team. Get to know who is really committed. If you have a great player with a terrible player, and you can't get the family squared away, let the player and the family move on. Don't hang on hoping for improvement that never comes, you'll just put yourself and the team through hell. Hardworking players with good attitudes, and their parents, will become angry with you and disillusioned with the team if you don't have the courage to dismiss bad apples and problem parents.

How to Deal With Young Players Who Just Won't Listen

If you coach in any of the age groups under 13 years of age, you are sure to meet poorly behaved children. You need to deal with them quickly, fairly and consistently. Children don't respond well to "anarchy", they respond to the coach setting reasonable boundaries (in terms of behaviour). It they don't, there are much bigger problems to hand and they belong back with their parents. Badly behaved children get too much time spent on them trying to correct thier behaviour - they deprive the well behaved children of valuable coaching / playing time and prevent you from coaching! Give em back to their parents to sort out or get their parents to attend training.

"Respect" starts as early as the first training session!

Here are some thoughts and suggestion from http://www.footy4kids.co.uk/

How to deal with players who just won't listen

How do you deal with players who don’t listen at practice and games?

First, it is important to tailor your practice to your players’ ages. If the player or players in question are under eight years old, they are probably just exhibiting personality tendencies common to that age group: short attention spans, high energy, sociability, an inability to understand certain detail-oriented explanations, etc. It has been shown that it is fairly unproductive to attempt to teach players under eight years old the technicalities of soccer such as corner kicks, goalkeeping skills, throw-ins, etc. At this level, the kids just want to have fun and get touches on the ball. This is why small-sided soccer is so important at this level. Playing with less players on the field results in more children getting touches on the ball, and consequently, more learning and more development.

Members Common Sense Wins Out Over HPP. Referees and Clubs Meet for Pre-Season Discussion. Refresher on the 1-4-3-3 System of Play

Program Broadcast on 09 MArch 2010 at 2xxfm, 98.3mhz through the COmmunity Radio Network.

Tonight's program is a diverse offerring:

• President of the Capital Football, John Logue confirms that the Board has reconsidered it's position over the issue of playing squads for the HPP and agreed in substantial part with the views expressed by the Members (Zone Reps and Chairs of the Standing Committees). See earlier posts for further comments of this matter. In short, there will be no playing squads for the HPP, with the exception of the Under 13 Boys - which is a curious exception.
• What do you really know about the 1-4-3-3 system of play? We have two short explanations - the first from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and another from UEFA, with the Coach, Harry Rednapp of the EPL team Tottenham Hotspurs giving his views ont he system of play. Very intersting.
• The State Coach of Referees, Clive MacKillop brings us up to date with the availability of referees for 2010 and the issues that arose form a meeting between key Referee officials and Club Coaches.

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Respect - If you left it to the Players this might happen!!!

Another good one in the English FA Respect Campaign