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Originally Posted by Player989random
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.
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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.