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Entries Tagged ‘fouls’

How To Deal With Rough Play

Apr.06, 2009 in Coaching, Referees 7 Comments

The ZenMaster shares some tips on how teams can handle dirty play and react to it in ways to counter it and evne take advantage of it.

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They Aren’t Delicate Flowers!

Oct.05, 2008 in Referees 1 Comment

Can someone explain to me why referees will show cards to boys, but not girls who are the same age? They aren’t all delicate flowers!

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USA v. Italy – Good Or Bad For New Fans?

Jun.18, 2006 in World Cup 2 Comments

Over at Strategy or Soccer, Yan feels that yesterday was a disaster because new fans who saw the match would be turned off to soccer as a whole. I’m not sure I agree with that – I think it helped … a lot. Yan notes:

[...] with many [...]

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