As the man responsible Jochen Drees draws this week at a training event a conclusion to his project, everything revolves around the football word of the year 2018: the video evidence. He polarized, and is in at least one of the nine Bundesliga stadiums per round number one issue. 37 decisions have corrected the video wizard in the Bundesliga – first half of the season. Happy with it but all are not for a long time. Hanover’s sporting Director Horst Heldt, who is the chief Prosecutor of the video evidence, said the end of the first half of the season, that “all that Shit is really unacceptable”.
it is, however, in Amateur football, as in professional football: human error, footballer, and also referee. This makes the Sport itself is sometimes not predictable, and no matter whether there is video evidence or not. And even if some teams sometimes feel at a disadvantage, the inequalities in the season. It is, therefore, still on the referee, probably more than ever. He is the decision maker, he is to manage the games without attracting attention, to stay 90 minutes of highly focused and error-free. Which footballer is required.
core competencies in the Amateur area
asked Because the requirements are so large and in order to keep the rate of wrong decisions as low as possible, there are also Amateur training. Turning to the content less the video evidence, as to correct information given in the report on the observance of rules at the passport control, but, of course, important rule questions and scenes of the last Bundesliga games. There, where it’s not about the video evidence or the use of goal-line technology, the referee still more to the managing of their games on the self-employed way, you have no Back-up, which engages in wrong decisions. In most of the associations you have in the district League, not even the wizard on the side line. Since it depends on the core competencies of the referee: In make split-second decisions, and communicate as a personality, everything in the handle does not have to make the decisions only, but also to sell properly.
to give young referees of this tool as early as possible on the way, there are now not only at the Association level, but also in most of the football funding pools circles. The young talents are trained by experienced arbitrator colleagues, to develop a personality on the court – in most cases, also with video studies of the directed areas. The Pools are forging something like a talent for the referee and the diving boards in the higher classes. There, you learn more than simply a question of taking the right decisions. Like all referees they need to allow them to measure, to make as few errors. But not land, only those in the Bundesliga, exhibiting a low error rate. It is also a matter of the sovereign Occur. The correct radiance.
man in Demand. Ex-referee Jochen Drees, project Manager, video evidence is “”.Photo: Arne Dedert/dpa
That Jochen Drees, who was the project Manager for the video proof in the Bundesliga, as last clear that the Impartial in the stadium in spite of video evidence of the main man and in the end, alone makes the decision, says a lot about how the Referees are now perceived. The video wizard is, as the word says, “a wizard, not the second referee or the head referee,” said Drees. How else, a game should be run? The idea that the colleague in Cologne, the cellar makes any decision, and the referee must sign off on the course, is grotesque. No technology in the world can afford, what makes a Impartial on the lawn. It is communicating with. This is at least as important as the fact that he – decides with the help of his assistant.
And so we are at the crucial point: video evidence and technology, the importance of the referee to zoom in even more. Only in this way it becomes clear how difficult it is to make the right decisions and what belongs to it, if you run a game, but not to stand out.
some of the district League referee would not, perhaps, a lawn only on the domestic arts, but also in the Berlin Olympic stadium make more correct decisions than many a Bundesliga referee. That sounds only once according to a damning indictment of the Elite-referees – but it is not. As a professional soccer grade referee is not only the right decisions, but also in how he conveys this in the first line of the players, but also coaches and spectators and sold.
“outside effect” is the decisive criterion
In referee training, it’s called the “outdoor effect”. Who is a tight offside decision in the Bundesliga, with drooping shoulders and zweifelndem view is attacked rather than a referee, the stands with an upright posture and self-confidence. It is a Form of nonverbal communication that is of great importance. For the video proof, this means that If the players realize that a referee can be intimidated, and uncertain in every second decision his Hand to the ear, to ensure that he has the game, probably not under control. The player will no longer recognize the authority of the Impartial.
to Add to the verbal communication. Arbitrators must find in the important moments, the right words to calm the game. Forms, as seen in the past few months was more common, case of a tricky scene in a game, grape to the arbitrator, it must remain steadfast, and his decision is clear and make it clear. Just experienced players recognize the sores, the referee quickly. If this is explained but factually, and without a doubt, why it comes with a penalty, corner kick or throw-in, he can take the explosiveness out of the game. to make
The main criterion for a referee, a career that is not so, that he must be error-free, but prudent, self-confident and socially competent. Therefore, it is also a fallacy that there are very good referees are automatically also good as a wizard. In the Cologne cellar where the video wizard to sit, you don’t need your body language, do not have to justify in front of players and are in a comfort zone.
separation between video wizard and arbitrators
project Manager Jochen Drees is therefore convinced, that there is a perspective view of a specialization – the referee on the pitch, the others have more Talent, tricky scenes on the screen. The fixtures of the video wizard is done rather arbitrarily. It plays a minor role, if referee assistant you can work as a Team – communication is the most important, perhaps even more important than between a wizard on the side line and the referee. Because the are able to communicate via Headsets, but in addition in case of doubt, the direct conversation.
video evidence. The beginning of an unmistakable gesture.Photo: imago/Thomas Frey
in Addition, the arbitrators are teams, so the referee and his two real-life wizard played Teams. Only in rare cases, if one of them is injured, or is prevented, is borrowed from another non-Partisan “”. The trust and familiarity are extremely important, because the referees at least 90 minutes of each other. With the video wizard, with which communication is not performed, it can retrieve the referee hardly his best performance.
It is also for referees in the top division of football in Germany, to ascend. They all have in common that they have provided from the County League on the eligible pools of the circles and associations to professional football the best overall package among the German referees. They were selected by their football circles, in the cadre of the associations forging sent through to the district League up to the Regionalliga. They were watched by mostly former professional arbitrators, which they referred to, among the best in their squad. And ultimately, they ended up all in the German professional leagues, where they were among the best of the Best. Up to the Bundesliga. Until you know the video evidence.
But these Best of the best referees are primarily impartial and communicative personalities on the field. Referees are always needed and now more than ever. No technology in the world can and will you ever be able to replace.
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Claus Vetter
The author is, since 2010, arbitrators at the national Association of Westphalia and the staff of the daily mirror sports Desk.
