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Whenever we write our reports on a league or a National Team match, the number one thing we don’t want to make any mention of is the performance of the referee. Yet no matter how much we try not to write about it, there will be those times where the officiating sticks out like a sore thumb.&nbsp;And I also don’t want to beat the proverbial dead horse, but in the case of Sunday’s match, the error made needs to be clearly dissected so that future instances don’t occur. .
The moment that is still floating around is the strange call by Referee Jasen Anno who officiated the New York Red Bulls home match against the Portland Timbers. The play where you would think reporters would love to write about the first goal of Tim Cahill’s MLS career is still a question mark.
But once again we have to discuss why this call was made and what could’ve been in the mind of Anno when he made a mess of things for the Timbers. Portland led by a goal as the match clock ticked to the final minute of regulation in the first half, and Thierry Henry found a way to keep possession at the end line and gave the ball to Sebastien LeToux.
A quick cross inside the area to Cahill who collected it and laid the ball off to Dax McCarty who one timed the shot on goal. The shot was handled by Timbers central defender David Horst off his right arm. The hard shot rebounded back to Cahill, who tagged the ball into the back of the net for the tally.
But just after Cahill shot the ball, Anno blew his whistle and ran into the area as if he was going to award a penalty. Yet just seconds later you see Anno running towards the center circle and waving his finger in a gesture of “no, no, no,” and allowing the goal.
On the MSG+ coverage Steve Cangelosi called the equalizing goal and said this: “But it will not count. Will it? Now the celebration is on, where is the confusion here?” If you go to Youtube and find that same goal with the Timbers announcers calling that play Robbie Earle was not happy with the decision.&nbsp;“The referee can’t do that he has to give a penalty. He blew his whistle as he was going to give a penalty and now he’s allowed the goal.”
So we can all agree that something is amiss here when you have announcers either not sure of what’s happened, or questioning the referee’s abilities to call a match?
But the one thing I found quite interesting is on the website of FIFA where they have a link to “Laws of the Game.” Section 5 is the Referee and Part 3 called “Decisions of the Referee.” It states: “The decisions of the referee regarding facts connected with play, including whether or not a goal is scored and the result of the match, are final.”
The referee may only change a decision on realizing that it is incorrect or, at his discretion, on the advice of an assistant referee or the fourth official, provided that he has not restarted play or terminated the match. But this was not the case, as Anno indicated after the match. He claimed this was a penalty, and that advantage was played to award the goal. Let’s take a look at that assertion.
While there is no specific guidance about advantage played on a penalty within, “The Interpretation of the Laws Of The Game And Guidelines For Referees,” there are a couple of interesting tidbits that would lead one to think Anno acted inapproprately.
1) The document strongly recommends the guarded use of the whistle, in order to maintain its effectiveness. No whistle needs to be used in the case of a goal award, but a whistle is definitely needed to halt play for a penalty. Basically, the idea is that a whistle indicates a need for the immediate and hasty halt to play.
2) A whistle being blown from the crowd that causes a team to pick up or handle the ball intentionally (basically simulating the stoppage of play) should result in a drop ball situation.
In other words, the whistle is an unmistakable indication of a dead ball situation while play is live, and thus a blown whistle should cause players to stop when play is active. For any advantage to be played after a whistle is blown would appear to be a major mistake by the referee, no matter how little time elapsed between the sound of the whistle and the ball entering the goal.
There needs to be a clear directive from the governing bodies that this was clearly a botched play. In no case should advantage play continue after a whistle is sounded.&nbsp;What transpired at Red Bull Arena is very simple. The referee acted to call for a penalty in the area of the Timbers as the defender handled the ball. Tim Cahill’s goal should’ve been wiped off the board and a spot kick to the Red Bulls should have been awarded. Jasen Anno failed to act on his first decision, and it may have had a serious impact on the outcome of Sunday’s match.

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Lima (AFP) – A rough tackle, the whistle blows and a foul is given. “Get back in the kitchen!” the player yells at the referee.
It’s one of the kinder things male players have said to Melany Bermejo, one of the rare women referees in the macho world of Latin American football.
Shoved, spat at, insulted and flirted with on the field, she and a handful of other women are nevertheless close to the top of their profession in men’s football games.
“You have to make double the effort a man makes,” says Lixy Enriquez, 42, an assistant referee in Mexico.
Bermejo, a 37-year-old PE teacher, has served as referee at second-division masculine games in her native Peru.
Like most of her female counterparts around the world, she has yet to break into the top league, where so far women serve only as lineswomen or fourth officials.
There are exceptions.
In Uruguay, Claudia Umpierrez, 33, made her top-flight debut in February as a referee in men’s games.
In Venezuela, Emikar Caldera and Yersinia Correa have been refereeing such games for three years.
Outside Latin America, Gladys Lengwe of Zambia is among the very few women to have reached the top level as a referee. In Ukraine, Kateryna Monzul is expected to do the same.

– ‘Go wash the dishes’&nbsp;–

World football body FIFA has 720 women registered as referees for professional football games — 324 main referees and 396 assistants.
But of 209 national federations, 60 have no female referees registered, according to FIFA’s data.
“For the time being, the women work mainly in women’s and youth football or in games with reserve teams, or men’s games of indoor football,” said Carlos Coradina, director of a referees’ training college in Argentina.
The president of the Peruvian Referees’ Commission, Julio Arevalo,&nbsp;denied the system was sexist.
Anyone&nbsp;who passes the tests set for male referees by FIFA and South American football governing body CONMEBOL can do the job, he said.
Those who want to referee men’s matches must be fit enough to keep up with top male athletes charging up and down the field.
“Male football is very fast and the players are very skilled,” says Loreto Toloza, 32, a female assistant referee in Chile.
But when a woman does make the grade, an different challenge begins.
The worst insults from the stands come from women fans, Lixy Enriquez says. The male fans yell: “I want to take home the assistant.”
The reception on the field is not always better.
When Virginia Tovar became the first woman to referee a top-league men’s match in Mexico in 2004, the star player Cuauhtemoc Blanco reportedly yelled at her: “Go and wash the dishes.”
In Argentina,&nbsp;referee Salome di Iorio says players have asked her to take down their phone numbers when she gets out her notebook. Others just spit at her.

– Strict women referees –

The pressure of verbal abuse turns the job into a psychological as well as a physical challenge.
“Some players do not want female referees and are not adapting to the idea,” Peruvian referee Johanna Vega says.
“I am very serious when I come onto the field,” she adds. “You have to be a psychologist” to put up with the insults.
Bernardo Corujo, president of the Venezuelan Referees’ Commission, reckons female referees are “stricter” than their male counterparts.
But they have fought a strict, sometimes overtly discriminatory, system.
In Argentina, Florencia Romano went on hunger strike in 1996 to demand the right to be registered as a professional referee.
The head of the Argentine Football Association at the time, Julio Grondona, said it was not “sensible” for a woman to do the job. Romano ended up being accepted anyway.
For women who make the grade, the psychological pressure can even turn to violence.
“One player jumped on me when I gave a foul and he didn’t like it,” says Tatiana Guzman, a 28-year-old referee in Nicaragua.
“There is always the fear that someone foolish will do that. You have to be ready to run.”

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