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REFEREEING IN FUTSAL: WHY ERRORS HAPPEN AND HOW TO PREPARE REFEREES
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In today's football, there are no referees who never made any error. But the frequency of such errors depends on how well-prepared is the referee. The goal of this article is to analyze how do occur the errors of referees in futsal. For this purpose, the authors identified and analyzed the errors and factors of their occurrence based on the reports by inspectors of futsal matches. In order to identify the most common errors and conditions for their occurrence, the authors have studied 32 reports made by 8 inspectors of futsal over a single game season of 2014/2015 in the Association of Minifootball of Sverdlovsk Region, Russia. Based on the inspector reports, the article provides a clear and consistent assessment of the activities of football referees on the playground, which includes the number of errors made during a football match, their chronology, nature, and how each of them affected the course of the game. The article presents the structure of factors of referee error occurrence, which conventionally divides all factors into two groups, such as internal and external factors. The most common error is associated with the violation of the game rules and undisciplined behavior of the players. It accounts for 43.6% of all errors noted in the reviewed reports. The second place is held by an error associated with the failure to award or wrong award of a penalty. It accounts for 17.5% of all errors. One sixth of all errors is associated with the actions of assistant referees. The study of inspector reports revealed two points. First, the internal factors of referee errors play a more important role than the external factors. Secondly, in the opinion of inspectors, most often, the erroneous actions of referees occur as a result of their insufficient theoretical and physical training. Given the results of studying reports and analyzing the characteristics of referee actions, the authors presented the generally accepted areas for the referee training.
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