The football referees have experienced in the last almost twenty years, a remarkable change of image. Even in the eighties, they were not a few as "black Pigs, "into her own strange species, as eccentric fringe figures of the most popular sport in the world. They were held for people of quirky character and tolerated it grudgingly as a necessary evil - which begat this country, not least that rectangular plate, which was more or less are well visible on every sports field (and sometimes still is) and with the words "Be fair at 23 Man - without a referee is not "urged viewers to remain calm as kicker. In professional football, the referee, the last amateurs; they went to a decent career, sacrificed for use in the Bundesliga and got her annual leave for an appearance in the Lords one days expenses set of exactly 72 (twenty-seventy-two) marks. In the lower leagues again, they were often what has Elke Wittich, sports chief of the weekly Jungle World , once described very aptly with the notion "weekend commander" : authoritarian characters who enjoyed it on the football field does not separation of powers and they are at least there could be the absolute ruler - police, prosecutors and logically, judge in one.
The gradual transformation of the referees, who gave up in the shallows of the amateur leagues, was accompanied by the increasing commercialization of football. Their jerseys were now green, red, yellow or blue, - was one of the top next to a badly cut an uncomfortable trousers, for the self-mode abstinent pensioners have been ashamed - the standard black uniform belonged to the past. The league went from the sports show into private television, and the number of cameras verzigfachte itself - which not only the so-called sidekicks so raging coach and desperate club president, an increasingly important role in the coverage played, but also the decisions The referees are increasingly the focus of attention moved: That was really a foul? An offside? A goal? And what has actually ridden the referee to rule on foul, offside, goal, even though everyone could see really slow after seven and three still images that there is no foul, no offside, no goal was? Over time they learned this, too, because the arch-conservative German Football Federation (DFB) - who had sealed off for decades, his pipes men - changed after some hesitation, his line: the referees were now no infallible demigods more, but were in the public and gives an account from.
And now they were paid better. Not as royally as the pros, but still: it is 3,800 euros today a football game, 2,000 € for use in the second division. Those who whistle in the top leagues will need the DFB always available, so long ago officiate in professional German football no teacher, electrician, more than referees, but above all self-employed and senior executives. The standards of physical fitness, appearance and personality of the GM rose (and down to the District League): Gone are the days when seen were obese men with unfavorable hair and bad manners in the stadiums to give the big Zampano . The referee today is slim and slender, with yet sophisticated short haircut, and is both on the grass square in front of the microphone and telegenic and eloquent. Pierluigi Collina as name or Markus Merk to know not only the experts and the European football body UEFA has recently been provided with the remarkable film Referees at work that an interested audience gets an intimate look inside the world of match officials.
all the more incomprehensible it is that the big brother of the Uefa, the world football body Fifa namely, the referees at the World Championships in barracks formally. To their (wrong) decisions, they may say nothing, fearing the officials, the referees could to talk to the head and neck. This heats up the secrecy of the debate even more so, that could influence the match officials without them. Moreover, it is nigh grotesque that the Fifa referees selected by her but for their skills has to manage the most important games of the football tournament in the world to perform them but apparently not trusted to off the field as professional. As this is deeply regrettable, does not last that much game scene, which provided not only in Britain for terror: Why did not recognize only the referees, the ball to Frank Lampard's undoubtedly connected crossbar came up behind the goal line? Had the referee or his assistant public may provide information, then you would probably find something that not everyone in the audience should be clear: The goal of the assistant stood where he had to be, namely at the level of the - counting the goalkeeper - the penultimate English defender. And from this position - he had to take to see a possible offside position can - it was for him not to recognize naturally, whether the ball had clearly crossed the goal line now or not (!). For the well-positioned correctly and therefore even more remote is the referee ever.
An error in the system, then? If you like, yes. Finally, no one to run as fast as the ball flies, it was the man at the line therefore simply impossible to achieve in time a place from which he would be able to assess the situation accurately. "On suspicion" but decided he could not, because it was true the maxim: When in doubt of it was just not the ball. Here is a set the discussion: Does it goal judge in the Champions League? A chip in the ball? The video evidence? All these proposals have something for themselves, the main argument that is mentioned time and again, is: In this multi-billion business, it may not be that errors of the referees on the course or even the result of a Game decide. But the other side has equally important objections: the football is not just so popular, because his over the years only moderately modified rules the world without discrimination - in the district league in the Bundesliga, the Middle East and Africa, as be implemented consistently and without technical aids - in Europe and South America? Is a game of influencing or critical error of the referees actually worse than a missed penalty at the wrong time? Video images can ever show definitive conclusions to be drawn? Its use would not be fast out of hand or even undermine the authority of the referee? If they were not the death of passionate football myths such as the "Wembley goal" or the "Hand of God"? And who else would tell you that you know where your car is, if not the blind man with the pipe?
obviously a very imaginative proposal meant as Lampard's goal had earned recognition can learn, has submitted the way, Peter Singer in the world . The German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, it was the "moral philosopher", the referee should have to tell that the ball had crossed the goal line, as he did not, he had "cheated" as they had before him such as Thierry Henry and Diego Maradona. Apart from the general questionable such lamentations about the alleged corruption of the football business (which ultimately handle always with a concept of justice, the abstracts of interests and the desire for personal advancement, therefore under suspicion, represents a betrayal of the mysterious "common good" to be): Here soars to a prosecutor on who has probably never even kicked the ball and some typical football sequences are therefore unknown. A goalkeeper is in flight at any rate hardly be able to judge whether one of the crossbar and then dripping down popups ball for a split second has passed the goal line or not - and that's not his job. A player who is unnoticed by the referee commits a deliberate handball, it could be his violation so hold still outraged - but to be expected of kickers, which may be purely a mistake of the referee did nothing, that Mother Theresa play in shorts is not only moralinsauer but quixotic.
The ongoing World Cup will be remembered not as the one with the best refereeing of all time certainly in the story. But the excitement about the Larriondas, Rosetti and Undianos expected to lay soon after the tournament. And far more important than the introduction of technical Aids - to the spectacle would take much of his passion, yet human only to a limited extent for a reduction could make mistakes (!) - It would in any case, the referee, first get rid of her completely outdated muzzle and secondly, to carry to full professionals, ie : they pay to permanently so well that they are either on another job or rely on dubious bets. Then they would make mistakes but still, sometimes game-deciding. But even a Messi hits sometimes from the beach and the sea is not his fans drives you crazy. That's just football. And that's a good thing.
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