Referees among Most Important Players in Soccer Tournaments  

Oleh:

Groot, Loek

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sport and Social Issues vol. 29 no. 4 (Nov. 2005), page 437-442.
Topik: economics of sports; referee; soccer; bribery
Fulltext: 437.pdf (61.23KB)

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The claim I want to put forward is that the referees—and in their wake the linesmen and the fourth officials (assuming that the latter have some role to play)—are among themost important players in tournaments such as the European Championship (EC) andWorld Championship (WC) football, on an equal footing with the star players entering the pitch. If true, this is not as it should be. Which national teamwins should be merely dependent on the performance of the football players. The referee should ideally play a strictly neutral role in this respect, but this is not the case, even if the referee has no preference or interest whatsoever in which team wins. The fact is that he has to make hard decisions during the match, which determines to a large extent the ultimate winner. For this to be true, two conditions have to be met.

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