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Old Sat Oct 06, 2018, 06:30am
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No one likes the abuse they get from coaches and spectators, especially when you're 15 and you got a bunch of middle-aged folks flipping out cause their kid tripped and you didn't hit the whistle.

It's a great idea, and youth soccer depends on teens to ref games, but the issue, just as it is with HS associations, is retention.
I'm sure I'm not the first on this forum to find www.stoprefabuse.com and https://www.facebook.com/youreoffside/, but it's still worth sharing in case others haven't seen it. It's a great referee abuse awareness program that soccer referee Brian Barlow has started. As a basketball and soccer ref, youth soccer club administrator, and father of two daughters (12 & 13) who ref soccer and 10-year-old son who just expressed interest in learning how to ref basketball, I fully support his mission.
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