Al Misehal meets with referees participating in the training course in Riyadh

2020-07-26
00:02:24

The president of the Saudi Football Association, Yasser bin Hassan Al Misehal, held a meeting today, Saturday, with the 56 assistant referees and referees participating in the training course that will be held in Riyadh and will be concluded next Monday.

He reassured that the referees were ready to manage football matches that will resume next month.

Al Misehal affirmed the Saudi Federation’s keenness to support the referees to lead the decisive matches periodically in the coming seasons with the continued use of international foreign rule, hoping that the Saudi referee will return to managing the decisive matches soon.

The president of the Saudi Federation revealed the union’s intention to preserve and defend all the rights of referees and to assign lawyers to stand with them against any accusations and media campaigns.

He said: "We have a major project to develop, support and rehabilitate to the Saudi government, which is being worked on by the Spanish committee chairman, Fernando Trisaco, including the academy project that was announced at the third periodic council meeting."

The President of the Council indicated that there is a new mechanism and additional list of referees' rewards that they are working on now, and the distinguished referees who manage the matches will have a share of them.

And the Saudi international lecturer Ali Al-Tarifi gave lectures on the referees of video technology under the supervision of the director of the referees department, where the judges were distributed in three rooms that include the technical devices, knowing that Al-Turifi’s presence with the referees will continue until the end of the camp.

The Referees Committee of the Saudi Federation is intensifying its meetings with the referees, where in today's meeting the focus was on VAR technology.

The committee continued to hold fitness tests under the supervision of the Referees Committee Chairman, Mr. Fernando Tricaco and the Director of the Referees Department, Swiss Manuel Navarro to determine the fitness level for all referees in preparation for their participation in the upcoming competitions, as well as tests were conducted in the Football Law after the recent amendments, and video cases.

The committee continued to hold fitness tests under the supervision of the Referees Committee Chairman, Mr. Fernando Tricaco and the Director of the Referees Department, Swiss Manuel Navarro to determine the fitness level for all referees in preparation for their participation in the upcoming competitions, as well as tests were conducted in the Football Law after the recent amendments, and video cases.