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- Title
Career stages in romanian football refereeing - the path from referee course to the FIFA Badge.
- Authors
ANTONIE, ANDREI
- Abstract
Football refereeing has become more demanding in terms of physical and mental preparation. Elite football referees are regarded as athletes these days and the most recent changes have brought major challenges in terms of job and occupation. Thus, top-level football referees have taken the path towards professionalization. The aim of this study is to create a career model for Romanian football referees. The present study uses guided in-depth interviews involving five Romanian top league referees (N= 5) and they were on-line due to pandemic. The proposed career model has five stages and represents the professionalization path from a leisure activity to a fulltime job. Each stage represents a certain period in the referee's life, and the required skills for each level will be discussed in this part of the study. Exploration represents the Referee Course and Grassroots football. Implementation is the second period and is the Fourth League (the highest district league). Consolidation is the Third League, the lowest national league. The Second League is represented by the stabilization period. Maintenance is most important period in a referee's career because they are refereeing at the highest national level and have the opportunity to be selected as an international referee. Concluding, football refereeing cannot be seen anymore as a leisure activity and more as a profession and a full-time job. Football organizations are taking into consideration more and more about refereeing and its importance in the game development. The proposed model can be applied to middle-size football countries, where refereeing has the same features as the Romanian one. Anyhow, elite football refereeing took an inexorable path towards professionalization in most of the countries worldwide.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; SOCCER referees; FEDERATION internationale de football association; PROFESSIONALIZATION; FOOTBALL
- Publication
Journal of Physical Education & Sport, 2022, Vol 22, Issue 7, p1675
- ISSN
2247-8051
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7752/jpes.2022.07211