Tue, 30 Nov, -0001
AFC Referee Assessors need to realise that they have a bigger role of empowering referees to become more effective and excellent at their job, Asian refereeing stalwart General Farouk Bouzo said.
A three-day AFC Referee Assessors Course, one of the activities in an ongoing AFC Refereeing Seminar 2014, started in the Malaysian capital on Tuesday.
Speaking while opening the course, General Bouzo, consultant to the AFC Referees Committee, said: “As you all know, you are the referee assessors in your country or you Member Association while some of you are referees assessors at the FIFA level.
“It is your duty and responsibility to assess the referees, evaluate their personality and behaviour, physical fitness and positioning while making decisions, and to assess the assistant referees, and many more. But it is not only these.
“Most importantly, you need to realise that you need to fulfill this responsibility carefully and at the end of the course, you will have learnt that you need to give advice to the referees based on your assessment of their performances. You need to empower them to be better referees.”
General Bouzo, who was Chairman of the AFC Referees Committee for more than two decades, also called on the referee assessors to make full use of the opportunity provided during the course and to be proactive in it.
“You will have top instructors from the AFC and also England and Scotland in this course, which aims to develop and improve the quality of refereeing in the confederation” he said.
“This course will not be successful without your active participation. So, I hope you will take advantage of this course to learn as much as possible and to be active in the sessions in the course.
“We’d like to wish you success in this programme and in performing your duty.”